Take your Time

With Meghna Parekh: On Communication, Collaborations and Introverts

Meghna Parekh is the founder of Basil Leaf Creative, an organization of creative consultants specializing in corporate and internal communications. With an immense focus on clarity and simplicity, Meghna's portfolio includes JP Morgan, TCS, Aditya Birla Group, and Mahindra as some of her partners. 

Tune in to listen to how Meghna started her journey back in 2008 and how she is growing her business while handling her responsibilities as a mother, who doesn't want to miss out on her child's growth. 

Hello people, welcome to another episode of Take your Time. For this episode we have Raghunandan Hegde with us. He is Director of Impact at Apnalaya, an organizations working with urban poor to empower them and build sustainable communities. Raghu’s work experience include research, impact measurement, technology integration in field of social impact. Having over 10 years of experience with NGOs and social impact organizations, Raghu is currently an Acumen India fellow. Welcome to the podcast Raghu. You can find him at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raghunandanhegde/

India Development Review: Raghunandan Hegde - India Development Review (idronline.org)

Apnalaya: Our People - Apnalaya

Hello people, this is your host Maitreyee and for today’s episode we have Shreya Chauhan with us. Shreya is a creative, a writer, a podcaster and a learner. She believes herself to be diligent, inquisitive and empathetic. Shreya is running a program called “A pinch of Positivity” where she enables a very warm, secure and comforting environment to discuss about emotions, how are we feeling and talk about the emotional aspects that aren’t much talked about, letting people destress without feeling the stress.

Website: Shreya Chauhan (wordpress.com)

Podcast: https://spoti.fi/37LM9tN

For this episode we have Swetha Guhan, Co-founder and Director of Key Education Foundation Bangalore and a past Teach for India fellow with us. She has done amazing and innovative work in field of education for past decade, be it developing amazing learning modules or researching for innovative methods to teach Science.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/swetha-guhan/

Key Education Foundation: https://www.keyeducationfoundation.org/

For this episode we have Aanam Ahmed, she is “Passionate about creating a positive impact every day”. Currently a Business Analyst at Mckinsey and Company, she has been a co-founder of “Girl-up Rise” an initiative under United Nations. Also she is an alumnus of Lady Shri Ram College, and was the Executive Director of Enactus LSR. Welcome to the “Take your Time” podcast Aanam.

You can find her on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanam-ahmed/

Welcome to a new episode of Take your Time podcast. In this episode, we have Lubna Malhotra with us; she is a writer, content creator and a final year student majoring in Economics at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi.

Tune in to listen Lubna’s perspective on “Trust the Process” and delve in to explore the intriguing values that she shares with us. This is an conversation about what we can do to give back, where it all starts.

You can find her on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lubnamalhotra/

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/lubnamalhotra

नितेश, महाराष्ट्र के नंदुरबार जिले में हाइपरलोकल सामाजिक जागरूकता पैदा करने वाले उल्गुलान फाउंडेशन के तहत एक पहल आदिवासी जनजागृति के संस्थापक हैं। यह सरकार और उसके लोगों के बीच की खाई को पाटने और सरकारी योजनाओं पर स्थानीय भाषाओं में सूचनात्मक वीडियो का उपयोग करके स्थानीय मुद्दों को उजागर कर रहा है। आदिवासी जनजागृति से पहले, नितेश परियोजना अधिकारी, जिला प्रशासन और संसद सदस्य के सहयोगी के रूप में काम करते थे। वह एक पूर्व एसबीआई यूथ फॉर इंडिया फेलो हैं और संचार में मास्टर डिग्री रखते हैं। वर्तमान में वह एक्यूमेन इंडिया फेलो हैं। Nitesh is the Founder of Aadiwasi Janjagruti, an initiative under the Ulgulan Foundation, creating hyperlocal social awareness in the Nandurbar District of Maharashtra. It is bridging the gap between the government and its people and highlighting local issues using informational videos in local languages on government schemes. Prior to Aadiwasi Janjagruti, Nitesh worked as Project Officer, District administration, and an Associate to Member of Parliament. He is a former SBI Youth for India fellow and holds a master’s degree in Communications. Source: https://acumenacademy.org/meet-the-fellows/nitesh-bhardwaj/ Aadiwasi Janjagruti: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadiwasi_Janjagruti LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nfornitesh/

Here is how Annanya describes herself:

Presently an English Lit major at Lady Shri Ram, I first started writing at the age of 13, and haven’t stopped since. Writing and content creation is something that I am not only passionate about also strongly consider it as a revolutionary tool that can bring the slightest and the greatest of change.

When not writing, you will probably find me overthinking at an isolated café midst lavender hues and Indie music, writing poetry or taking aesthetic photographs or brainstorming the next big thing for my startup. I am also an avid reader and take delight in constructive debates on almost anything and everything, including politics, philosophy, feminism, and mental health.

Having worked with 15+ brands as a professional content creator and marketer, my writings have reached millions of impressions. You’ll find my bylines in Times of India, Live Wire, AIESEC, and DU Beat.

Source: annanyachaturvedi.com

You can find more about her and her work at:

LinkedIn: Annanya Chaturvedi | LinkedIn

Podcast: Breaking Beads

Isha Gandhi is a final year Statistics student at Lady Shri Ram College of Women, and an Incoming Associate at Boston Consulting Group. Currently she is President of Enactus LSR and has started a covid-aid resources page with 7 of her friends, to organize and collate the resources for covid related needs. You can find her on:

LinkedIn: Isha Gandhi | LinkedIn

Covid Aid page: Covid Aid Resources, India (@covidaidresources) • Instagram photos and videos

Possibilities not limits. 

Just a slight change from, “I can’t do this” to “How can I do this?”, brings a whole lot of difference in. Decesions in short run compounds in long run.

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