Author: Ramdas Shenoy

Ramdas Shenoyy in conversation with Dr.Meghana When did you think about De Mantraa? What was its objective…what prompted you to start this? In 1997, the very initial days of my practice I realized that the patients coming to me with chronic illnesses had more than physical issues. When I started discussing with them further on their conditions, spending more time with them, I realized that most of these illnesses were stemming from their unresolved emotions and unresourceful mindset. In my quest to help them and to completely cure their diseases, I started working with them on their past memories and…

Ramdas Shenoyy from stirfrymba.com in conversation with Vaniitha@thePerfectPour. From a Corporate communications and brand management, Vaniitha found her “true forte” in wine and is now a full time wine professional. She is focused on the wine space to advise, train, educate, conduct events and consult wine companies. How did it all begin? From a corporate career in marketing, communications to Wine? Something about your present initiative? Back in 2010, it dawned on me that I am passionate about wine and spirits and had to do something about it! Professionally, life was ‘sorted’ as a marketing leader in a variety of…

“Mirror Mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all?” – “Thou, O Queen, art the fairest in the land,” said the mirror. Then one day, the mirror said to the queen, “Snow White, O Queen, is the fairest of them all.” 2020 is knocking at the doors and one thing which comes to everyone’s mind is can we foresee — what is in store for 2020 and ahead? 20 Trends for 2020 IoT will soon start taking over every device, and invariably your brain, what it means is that every aspect of your life from salt to aeroplane(borrowing Tatas businesses) will…

It was pleasure featuring stories of 13 different personalities( Prerona Roy, Rekha Pallath, Pravin Tulpule, Rushabh Turakhia, Mariette Valsan, Anand Kumar, Vikram Bhatt, Nirmal Jain, Sanjay Jha, Dr. Sandesh Mayekar, Mukkta, Hitarth Dalal and Dr.Hitesh Bhatt – 13 different professions from different walks of life, each leading life on their own terms. You will find these 13 different personalities each showing all or many of the traits in their success journey. Trait#1- Anticipator A unique quality for success, which was definitely shown by Dr. Sandesh Mayekar, Nirmal Jain, Vikram Bhat who did not wait for the right moment or the…

India’s Patch Adams talks to Ramdas Shenoy from Stirfrymba.com . How it all started from a Naval officer to a Clown who brings happiness? I started doing magic shows since I was a teenager and continued being an entertainer all through my college and even Naval career. The idea of becoming a full-time professional Clown or magician was always a dream and like most of us, I never took it seriously.  It was only after that chance meeting, in the year 2000, with a Cancer struck child and his sudden and unfortunate passing soon, that I decided to hang up my pristine whites and adapt a…

Founder of a Kindness Movement talks to Ramdas Shenoy of Stirfrymba.com What is ‘Your Turn Now’? How did it all start? Your turn now is a kindness movement that began in December 2009.The movie pays it forward was a spark that lit and gave birth to this movement along with various other factors, be it my writing, life coaching, books I read growing up, etc. So a little blue card which reads It’s Your Turn Now is given every time a kind act is conferred upon someone. So the receiver then is encouraged to further pass on the card by…

When did you decide you wanted to join the defense force? I first decided to join when I was 16. An army recruiter came to my school to see if he could recruit anyone. At first, I did not think much of it, I was just curious about what the army had to offer and what the process would be like so I started talking to him. The next year, he reached out to me and asked me if I was still curious. I said yes, so he invited me over to the recruiting station to go over things in more detail. It…

What is Anand Kumar as a person, as a professional and as an award-winning blogger? As a person, I am sincere, balanced and not so complicated. I believe that being associated with creative activities keeps the brain alert and functioning all the time. I am a keen follower of current affairs and am passionate about current affairs, music and films. I am liberal-minded with no dogma. As a professional, I am pragmatic and switch between being a task-oriented person and relationship-oriented person. So, I believe strongly in situational leadership. Similarly, I like to switch between being a left-brain person to…

In the days, where even before you key in words, Google thinks for you, it is very interesting to know that #ThinkWithGoogle has a vision 2020(incidentally 2020 is another nomenclature for perfect vision 6/6). What it essentially talks about — Changing a complex consumer journey: Where earlier age the marketers were worried about the physical world, now they have to get the mind share and screen time of the virtual world. A customer going to an electronics retail shop in the real world, also checks about the same in the online world. This jumping of the shopper from online to…

Nirmal Jain — Founder and Chairman IIFL Group on Stirfrymba with Ramdas Shenoy. ≥ From an FMCG like Unilever with an IIM A, why and when did you decide to venture on your own in the mid-nineties? How would you define the journey so far? I come from a business family. Both my father and grandfather have been entrepreneurs. Therefore, I always wanted to be an entrepreneur. I passed out from IIM Ahmedabad in 1989 and began my career with Hindustan Unilever (then Hindustan Lever). HUL, despite being a large multi-national company has a great entrepreneurial culture and it gives…