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A rare bacterial disease led to the amputation of Shalini Saraswathi’s limbs when she was in her 30s. At 36, she took up running and is now preparing for the Paralympics to be held next year. She is also a motivational speaker and blogger with her own original series on Firework. Shalini has been releasing five videos every week since the end of August and the page clocked over 2,57,154 unique views in less than a month’s time with one video having views over 200,000, and others with over 13,000 views.

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This story was originally reported by Nirandhi Gowthaman on 31st Aug 2020 with edits by Rekha Balakrishnan. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

Air India’s Captain Zoya Agarwal has scripted history as the first woman to fly the Boeing-777 and more recently, the longest commercial flight in the world. Air India commander Zoya Aggarwal and her all-woman cockpit crew recently scripted history by operating the world’s longest commercial flight that crossed the North Pole at 34,000 feet in the sky. With 250 passengers on board, the crew of four women captains in the cockpit had the world tracking their every movement in the sky. Women’s empowerment is very close to Zoya’s heart. She says, “Pretty much everywhere in the world women are not treated equally – there is discrimination against women regarding salaries and positions with no explicable reason.” 

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This story was originally reported by Tenzin Norzom on 2nd Feb 2021 with edits by Rekha Balakrishnan. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

For months, a group of techies camped overnight at the fruit and vegetable market in the outskirts of Bengaluru with only one aim in mind: figuring out the complicated supply chain.

This is what led to the birth of Bengaluru-headquartered B2B agritech startup Ninjacart, which has in four years notched up a delivery accuracy rate of 99.88 percent all year round.

Founded by Thirukumaran Nagarajan and Vasudevan Chinnathambi in 2015, the agritech startup has successfully built a tech-enabled supply chain for fresh farm produce, delivering 1,400 tonnes of fruits and vegetables daily.

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Listen to Thirukumaran Nagarajan talk about how he cracked the scale challenge, particularly cracking the fresh produce supply chain, with his sixth venture Ninjacart.

Udaan, which is disrupting offline distribution with its unique B2B model, was started in 2016 by former Flipkart intrepid trio Amod Malviya, Vaibhav Gupta, and Sujeet Kumar, and is fast becoming the wind beneath the wings of India’s B2B ecommerce space.

With over 30,000 sellers and more than two million buyers as retailers, Udaan is present in more than 900 cities today. At its core, Udaan accelerates domestic trade economy by virtue of it being a full-stack ecommerce platform for B2B businesses.

In a freewheeling conversation, second-time founder Kunal Shah talks about a range of topics from the maturing Indian startup ecosystem to Indian economy to his idea of building an engaged community of high-trust individuals.