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Apurva Purohit is the CEO of Radio City 91.1FM, an IIM –B alumnus (Batch of 89) and has been managing media organizations for a large part of the 25 years she has spent in the corporate world.
Apurva’s experience ranges across partnering with private equity players in building superior organizations and creating valuable businesses, and handling media businesses and brands. Prior to her entry into radio she has been part of the television space where she worked with BCCL & Zee Telefilms. She has launched successful TV brands like Zoom, India’s first lifestyle channel and Lodestar, which is counted amongst the top 5 media agencies in the country today.
She was the first President of the AROI, the Industry body of the radio industry and is on the Sectoral Council for Innovation of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. She is an Independent Director on the boards of Mindtree Ltd, Meru Travel Solutions Ltd and Midday Infomedia.
She is a partner in Social Venture Partners India which is a coalition of influential leaders committed to helping solve complex social issues through personal philanthropy, advocacy, and capacity building. She is also on the advisory board of BizDivas Foundation as well part of the Board of Governors of MRUC, the apex media and advertising body working on research.
She is the author of the national best – selling book on successfully managing the merge between home and work, ‘Lady, You’re not a Man’ – the Adventures of a Woman at Work, published by Rupa Publications.
Apurva Purohit is a guest speaker at the Breaking Barriers To Business Growth Step Above event (Bangalore venue) and will be sharing her experience with building a business and crossing the hurdles to growth.
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Fundamental Rights are but basic human rights that allow a person to live with dignity. Depriving basic rights of one particular gender based on whatsoever reason can never be justified.
Every year we celebrate women’s day with great enthusiasm and fervour. On one side, with each passing year, a new theme is introduced to kick start this day and on other side we also face equally devastating issues affecting girls and women alike. When we look at the future from a broader perspective, it is apparent that the root level issues still continue to remain unanswered. And like it is said – no house can stand still for years without a strong foundation; no progressive approach is possible unless the issues at the ground level are acknowledged and addressed in the right manner.
According to UN Sustainable Development Goals, any issue pertaining to women is considered as a challenging one. And it is on account of this that an entire goal- SDG 5 is dedicated to Gender Equality, with the aim to end any sort of discrimination against women and girls by the end of 2030. The question is whether we have made a move towards that direction yet?
Well, while a select set of society is moving forward with progressive thoughts, the other set is still struggling to achieve basic human rights. The goal to achieve those rights may appear as a bigger task to conquer but it is definitely not an impossible one. What is required is that first, we need to start addressing the issue. And here “We” starts with us!
Most young men will benefit from reading Concrete Rose by the iconic Angie Thomas, the prequel to the extraordinary The Hate U Give.
Angie Thomas is probably the most powerful voice of her generation, and with Concrete Rose, the prequel to The Hate U Give (THUG), she has yet again set standards which even she will struggle to beat. This is the story of Maverick Carter– of what made him the man we came to love and admire in THUG.
One afternoon, he is a seventeen year old, slinging dope, playing basketball and buying gifts for his girlfriend. A few hours later, a DNA test comes out positive and he realises that he had impregnated his best friend’s girlfriend during a one night stand when his condom slipped. The mother of the child disappears and he is stuck with a three month old baby he had no idea was his. His mother insists that he ‘man up’ and shoulder his responsibilities. He learns to change diapers and burp the baby. He moves out his music collection to make place for the crib, and sells his recorder to buy essentials for the baby. He even gives up slinging dope and takes up a minimum wage job. His girlfriend breaks up with him, the baby keeps him awake at night, he is exhausted working in the grocery store and school becomes the one place where he can catch up on his sleep.
Normally a teen pregnancy turns the mother’s life upside down, but here it is the father who bears the brunt of it (though he had no say in whether or not the pregnancy should be continued). Though he had never been particularly ambitious, Maverick sees even the few dreams he had disappear. He sees no escape from a dreary future where he will be bagging groceries all his life. Angie Thomas does a remarkable job of getting into the psyche of the teenage father, and talking about how much damage the ‘men don’t cry’ myth does to young black men.
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