“Mrs. Bindra”, married at the age of 20, was a regular “navy wife” for most part of her life, but at the ripe age of 40 – when the kids were all grown up, and she had nothing to do – she decided to start selling “simple cotton printed suits” from home with no formal training or experience.
Today, these suits are one of India’s most iconic fashion labels – what you know and love as “Biba.” Here is her inspiring story.
She built a company that is the largest buyer of tribal honey in India. How did Chayaa Nanjappa pip the biggies in the game?
Every effort times ten — that’s how Ankita Sheth built an empire of homestays
Sabina Chopra, co-founder of Yatra.com, can traverse any difficult path to reach her destination
Autoplant founder Uma Rajan knows the secret of making timely deliveries is to keep going, however the road winds
Archana Bhatnagar believes the best catalyst for growth is a never-say-die attitude
Uma Chigurupati manages a pharma company and a vineyard with equal ease
Goldman Sachs and Pouring Pounds were stopovers before starting her very own, Indian cashback website
With a focus on customer centricity and innovation, Dipali Goenka has transformed home-grown textiles major, Welspun, into a force to reckon with globally
By donning multiple hats at TVF, Nidhi Bisht has come to be one of the most popular faces in the burgeoning digital content industry
Shilpa Sharma followed all her passions — all things ethnic, travel and food — with relentless commitment and converted them into profitable businesses
Determined to start a ‘Period Revolution’, Deepanjali Dalmia gave up an enviable Manhattan job and got cracking on an eco-friendly sanitary pad
Vinita Jain has always been fascinated by ayurveda, even as a curious child growing up in the himalayan tea estates
Armed with nuts, bolts and a coding guide, Meghna Bhutoria is determined to make learning fun
Nidhi Gupta believes that she can do anything, learning on the go and always striving for more to make her solar epc business a Rs.10-billion enterprise
Sports, saree and literature sit comfortably in Malavika Banerjee’s collection of interests and successful businesses
Nidhi Yadav, the brain behind the Rs. 1-billion womenswear brand Aks, can spot a trend a mile away and that’s her secret
In the age of hyper-funded start-ups, Sunita Maheshwari built her healthcare enterprise on her own steam
After experiencing the horrors of applying for a home loan, Rati Shetty decided it was time to simplify things
Gowri Thyagarajan Mukherjee jumped at the chance to start a business, a secret wish she always had, and made financing more inclusive
This internet-Goddess – who, interestingly enough, started out as a backup-dancer and even appeared in Sukhbir’s iconic Taare Gin Gin music video – started blogging in 2007 when no one had even heard of the term.
Coder-in-chief Manisha Raisinghani, Founder of Loginext, has created an algorithm that forms the best possible trips for delivery executives.
Supriya Roy, one of Kolkata’s favourite bakers, found that a successful business is like a perfect pastry – with many layers and requiring hours of patient sifting
Srividya Kannan never liked an easy win, and so she ditched a top job to convince large enterprises to trust their future-readiness on a small start-up
The quiet Sairee Chahal hides a will of steel, which is transforming womens’ lives in India
Rashmi Daga’s astute business sense and her all-time love for cooking is the secret sauce in FreshMenu’s success
She has rescued over a hundred underprivileged women from penury and helped them become financially independent, with her microfinance institution, Konoklota Mahila Urban Co-operative Bank
Kanika Tekriwal’s aircraft charter business took off from a rocky strip but today high-flying business men rely on her to reach them wherever, whenever
Married against her will and abused, Kalpana Saroj was branded a slave till she decided to be her own master and build a shimmering metal empire
Malini Agarwal has done the impossible – make a conversation with millions sound like a cosy natter among friends.
Manisha Raisinghani fine tunes her algo every day to ensure that deliveries, including lovingly chosen gifts, reach their destinations on time.
First Global’s Devina Mehra is a prime example of not confining oneself to set boundaries and winning on one’s own terms
Indiahikes co-founder Sandhya Chandrasekharayya leads the way in showing how you can channel your passion to build a pioneering profitable venture
She created the first Indian e-commerce site that went public, and Neeru Sharma still has (the last) mile to go before she sleeps.
Usha Stud Farm is a leading producer of derby-winning horses in India, owing to the fierceness of its owner Ameeta Mehra
50-year-old Ritu Kapur is more just the co-founder of The Quint, she is its life and soul – something which is especially impressive, as only a few years back, she knew zilch about the digital world.
This jute baroness has a zoo at home, helps sex workers, and assumed the reins of her husband’s jute empire upon his sudden demise, at the grand age of 57.
India’s “Master Wedding Planner” on how fantasy weddings turned out to be a very lucrative business – and how un-glamourous it can get behind the scenes
Monisha Advani shares her checklist for success in the entertainment business
Rajni Bector of Cremica did not let her detractors get in the way of building one of India’s biggest foods company
Liu, who owns four successful Chinese restaurants across Kolkata, owes her success to the hardships she has faced while growing up
Quantum Consumer Solutions’ Meena Kaushik defied cynics to emerge as an astute entrepreneur
A clear vision coupled with unwavering discipline is what makes Le15’s Pooja Dhingra, the master patissier that she is
She takes pride in being the ‘Olivia Pope’ of Bollywood, and is now even taking on New York and LA
Shifting from Singapore to India, she utilized all her life savings to start her fifth company. But this time, the electric entrepreneur says it’s different.
Interestingly, Suchi Mukherjee got the idea to launch Limeroad during her second maternity break, when she lived in London.
Singh knows pretty much the entire spectrum of coding languages, and has created the largest start-up data platform that tracks 10 million companies, for the aid of VCs and Corporate Development companies
Shubhra Chadda took her love of curious and quirky, chic designs and created a India-themed retail lifestyle chain, Chumbak
ShopClues co-founder Radhika Ghai believes in the power of faith in one’s potential and strong determination
Ritu Dalmia, the “workaholic” owner of seven Italian restaurants, believes that there is nothing as satisfying as seeing a customer leaving her restaurant happy
Zivame’s Richa Kar does not mind getting her hands dirty and believes that, in her business, the buck stops with her
This designer has come a long way – from a workshop in Dharavi to owning a store in NY
Upasana Taku, co-founder, MobiKwik, built the company from scratch and now has 32 million users and 100,000 merchants, doing close to 500,000-1,000,000 transactions every day
Meena Ganesh, CEO, Portea Medical, believes in spotting opportunities in the right place at the right time
The Zipdial Co-founder is on a mission to help marketers make the most of “missed-calls”
Natural beauty products are today par for the course, but for pioneer Shahnaz Husain the association is more than just skin-deep
In the big competitive world of textiles, Sanjita Prasad has carved a niche for herself with Amaltas International — but not before winning the battle of the sexes
Never one to shy from exploring, Anu Acharya’s uninhibited curiosity led her to pioneer status in the Indian genomics industry
Earlier with ICICI Venture and now with Multiples alternate Asset management, Renuka Ramnath has always taken the road less travelled
Here’s how a setback in her early days spurred Nina Lekhi to create one of India’s most successful accessory brands, Baggit
She called it quits at the peak of her career and built her own business, and whoa – it’s worth Rs.5.7 billion now
Mumbai’s family-run corner cafe is everyone’s favourite patisserie
She makes the who’s who of Bollywood dance to her tunes both as a choreographer and a director, and more impressively, as a friend. Here’s a walk through Farah Khan’s dream run in Bollywood.
One of India’s youngest producers, she gave us cult classics like Gangs of Wasseypur and The Lunchbox. Here is the inside story of her love-hate relationship with B-town.
Bhabani made her mark as a stylist, when she boldly became the first ever hairdresser who didn’t straighten Preity Zinta’s unruly curls for the big screen, and that hairdo became legendary.
From being a naïve teenaged hairstylist to BBlunt’s big boss, Adhuna Bhabani has trimmed all the obstacles along her path
What’s more – she started off before the Indian fashion industry was even born, and aspires to take Indian labels to the same heights as Dior and Loius Vitton
She calls herself “the biggest risk-taker in the industry.” Here’s the full story of how KMS turned a job rejection into India’s largest biopharmaceuticals company
The story of VLCC. How Vandana Luthra pulled it off
The secret of Ekta Kapoor’s success: she ate, drank, slept and married television
How Bharati Jacob maintains the perfect balance – great career, ideal mother
How Masaba Gupta cashed in on her passion for fashion
How Meena Bindra started at 40 and scaled up Biba
How Zia Mody became India’s indisputable M&A queen
She’s starting up for the fifth time, but she says this time, it’s different – this time, her company has more soul, more depth, and a much larger mission.
Tara Books’ founder Gita Wolf explains why the credit for the growth of her international publishing business goes to collective action and collaboration
Anita Kaul Basu balanced motherhood and her career to come up trumps with one of India’s most successful TV production house, BIG Synergy
At 31, Guneet Monga has emerged as India’s youngest producer to taste success by not sticking to the conventional Bollywood formula
