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Bharati Jacob has over 27 years of experience in venture investing, marketing and financial services with Seedfund, Infinity Ventures and Lazard India. She co-founded Seedfund in 2006 along with Pravin Gandhi and Mahesh Murthy.
Prior to Seedfund, she was a Principal at Infinity Ventures, a pioneer in Indian early stage investing whose exits include Indiagames (sold to tomonline) and India Bulls (listing in India). Before that she established and held the P&L responsibility for the Southern operations of Investment bank Lazard India.
Bharati pursues her professional interests in creating scale, early stage investing and women’s entrepreneurship by writing in leading publications and speaking at various events and conferences, and is a charter membership at TIE.
She has Masters degrees from The Wharton School of University Pennsylvania and XLRI Jamshedpur and is an alumni of the Shriram College of Commerce, University of Delhi.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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