Author: Ramdas Shenoy

Ramdas Shenoyy speaks to Larissa Simpson, the artist, actor and model from United States. Larissa makes playful, childlike stop-action and live action films, performances and music videos, hand-drawn illustrations, still photos and writing, often combining these within multidisciplinary work. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Larissa grew up mostly in California and New York. Her family is from the British Isles, Germany, America, Poland, and Scandinavia.  Her work draws from punk, industrial, goth, grunge, new wave, avant-garde, classical, dada, surrealism, nature, and gender theory.  She enjoys spending time with friends and family. Your journey – when you decided to venture into the…

Ramdas Shenoyy from StirfryMBA.com connects with Ms Drishti on social entrepreneurship and challenges. Sarvani is an all-girls organisation founded by Drishti Kharbanda, to provide a platform which is easily accessible to all and create a medium between men and women who can inspire each other with their unique yet similar stories. Sarvani – Idea to now Sarvani is all women run organization from Chandigarh. It started differently. There was no concrete idea. She was in the 2nd year at MCM DAV college Chandigarh, an all -girls college. Drishti was about 19 years old. The idea was to connect women who…

Ramdas Shenoyy speaks to Luma from Jordan on Life Coaching, Bahja initiative, and more. How does Life coaching work? Life coaching is aimed at helping people meet goals in their personal or business lives by guiding them in the right direction figuring out who they are and what they want, what obstacles have been holding them back, learning what to do to overcome them, taking positive action, and maintain their gains over the long journey of their own . What are the challenges in life that life coaching addresses? Life Coaches can help their Client’s in many areas like building confidence ,…

Ramdas Shenoyy in conversation with Mr. Srinivas on deep tech, Energy management and IPM+ a break through innovation in the IT space with 7+ Patents. Vigyanlabs is an innovation driven organization focused on building Intelligent Power Management and Self-Care products to promote green computing and save money for Enterprises. Founded by Srinivas Varadarajan and Srivatsa Krishnaswamy, they have attracted some of India’s best talent to create new intellectual property and build technology products to deliver the benefits of their IP and knowledge base to the society at large rapidly. How has your journey been from being the Principal Architect of…

Ramdas Shenoyy speaks to one of India’s top lawyers in the Cyberlaw space. Cybercrime scenario in India The cybercrime scenario in India is absolutely serious. During these COVID times and during lockdown period cybercrime has increased over 500%. The reason being unemployment, economic disparities being created, we see lot of youngsters resorting to cybercrime to earn a livelihood. The legal framework in India exists but it is not absolutely capable of handling these, the reason being the laws are pretty outdated. The act was amended in 2008 and 2011 and honestly the technology and the nature of crimes have drastically…

Ramdas Shenoyy in conversation with Mr. Ghate, Head of Research, UX, Service Design at Tata Elxsi on the design trends and other aspects. With more than 2 decades in the design domain, how would you narrate your journey? The best part of the design profession is that you always love your job. Every day, you get up with a gusto to solve the next design challenge. The 2 decades journey in design seems like a breeze. It’s no strain, it’s no looking back at the career and thinking if certain things should have been done differently. Of course the big caveat…

Ramdas Shenoyy talks about the marketing myopia. Most of the technocrats have a marketing myopia, where they are so much married to the product that they talk about the technology, the patents, the IP and how the product is a blessing to humanity The critical question, one has to ask is whether the product offering is able to address the customer pain areas. Essentially there are 2 ways to develop a product, one is to focus on the technology and the other on the needs of the customer. Asking what the technology can do is less valuable than asking what…

Ramdas Shenoyy from Stirfrymba.com ventures into the Story-land of Amar Chitra Katha with Preeti Vyas. Relevance of print versions of comics in today’s digital world Preeti Vyas staunchly believes that the joy and the pleasure one gets in reading a physical printed copy of a comic is an experience obviously very different from reading a digital one. But people look at ACK Media as comic book creators and not as comic book printers. “We are storytellers. So whatever medium that our readers choose to read us from, we are available in those mediums. We are agnostic to those mediums actually,”…

Fighting against all odds– The Brune Story at the ISA Series The story of Brune is a story of fighting against all odds. Losing his eyesight at the age of 13 didn’t deter him one bit. Currently a research fellow at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, Brune believes disability is only in the mind. We got to know more about Brune, as he was the inaugural guest for the ISA Series, hosted by Prerona Roy. “The word inclusive, is an exclusive process for them”, said Brune, speaking about a Google seminar. This is an interesting way of looking…

Stirfrymba on why Tansihq had to pull down an ad campaign. After severe backlash, Tanishq pulls down ad accused of promoting ‘love jihad’. An advt which looks like promoting communal harmony but then the jewellery which was meant for baby showers in Hindu community, a major customer segment which Tanishq could not afford to face the backlash. #BoycottTanishq’ was a top trend with several people calling for a ban on the 45 second ad featuring interfaith marriage. People who are holding the fort for societal harmony will support the advertisement but vicious trolling is not what the brands can afford…