People: CEO of The Weather Company
This Article has been published in Khabar Magazine. Veteran corporate executive ROHIT AGARWAL talks about his journey from SVP at AOL to the leader of this weather forecasting giant, which impacts 360 million lives daily. Understanding people—not just their habits or choices but why they do what they do—drives Rohit Agarwal. This skill just earned […]
Rajen Sheth: The journey of a self-made entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship isn’t for everyone. It demands unwavering determination, strategic thinking, and the ability to transform setbacks into opportunities—qualities that define Rajen Sheth’s remarkable journey. Speaking from his metro Atlanta home, the seasoned entrepreneur shares insights from a career built on persistence and adaptability. “Success in business isn’t about avoiding failure—it’s about using each challenge as […]
Spin Organics: How Taruna Vanjani’s kitchen experiments sparked an ayurvedic skincare brand
BY NEHA NEGANDHI* In 2012, Taruna Vanjani faced a life-altering diagnosis of Hashimoto’s disease, an autoimmune condition affecting the thyroid. Alongside this, she also discovered she had Celiac disease, a severe gluten allergy that clouded her life with brain fog, fatigue, and digestive issues. Her symptoms were problematic, yet her doctors offered a disheartening response: […]
Creating connections through South Asian art at Emory’s Carlos Museum
BY NEHA NEGANDHI* In a city as diverse as Atlanta, where cultures intersect and thrive, the Michael C. Carlos Museum stands as a beacon of global storytelling. Since its formal establishment on Emory’s Atlanta campus in 1919, the Carlos Museum has become one of the premier museums in the Southeast. The museum holds one of […]
Mitun Chaudhuri: Weaving sustainability into fashion with Maka Maka
BY NEHA NEGANDHI* Mitun (Srabanti) Chaudhuri’s journey into sustainable fashion started well before she launched Maka Maka, her online sustainable home and fashion boutique. Growing up in a mid-upper-class family in Kolkata, India, she was shaped by a love for travel instilled by her parents. “Wanderlust was in my blood,” she reflects, remembering how her […]
Desi Director’s Critically Acclaimed Hollywood Movie
With City of Dreams, his directorial debut, Mohit Ramchandani has delivered an intense, well-crafted thriller that is also “a weapon of mass inspiration in the war against child trafficking.” In our free-ranging conversation over a virtual meeting, he talks about the dogged determination that helped him pull off his dream despite being relatively unknown in the […]