Naini Thaker

1 month ago | forbesindia.com | Naini Thaker

It is 12.30 AM. Spandana Eslavath, a 26-year-old mother in Bengaluru, is home alone, tending to her daughter who is suffering from severe food poisoning. Realising she is out of ORS, Eslavath opens Flipkart Minutes on her phone. A few taps later, help is on the way. Within 10 minutes, a rider hands over the much-needed solution at her doorstep—a moment of relief during a night of stress. It is 7.30 AM.

1 month ago | forbesindia.com | Naini Thaker

Q. Why is there a need to invest heavily in infrastructure in India? We've had subsea, or submarine, cable infrastructure from Japan to the rest of the world for a while, and we continue to invest in it because that's the backbone of the global digital economy, and increasingly of the AI economy. So having Southeast Asia and especially India, which is geopolitically and macro economically super important, is critical. We've had this in the planning for a long time.

1 month ago | forbesindia.com | Naini Thaker

Full Bio Recent Most Popular Naini is a writer at Forbes India, who likes to dabble in storytelling across all forms of media. She writes on various topics ranging from innovation and startups to cryptocurrency and agriculture—anything and everything that makes for an interesting story. Before her stint at Forbes India, she worked for close to a year at Outlook Business.

1 month ago | forbesindia.com | Naini Thaker

Just as these plans were finding their feet, the global hospitality industry was dealt a hammer blow by the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, which brought the tourism industry worldwide to a grinding halt. “There was almost no way to make any revenue. The sector saw its worst in the last 100 years,” recalls Chhatwal. Also read: How IHCL is consistently achieving strong financial resultsDrastic times called for drastic measures.

1 month ago | forbesindia.com | Naini Thaker

In the perfume industry, it’s exactly the same—the actors and actresses of our industry are the perfumers. And perfumers always have a style, a way of writing a formula. Some perfumers write short formula, 10 to 15 ingredients, where the emotion is much more raw, much more direct. Others like to have a much more detailed formula with 60 to 100 ingredients. For me, when I start on a new scent, the first thing that comes is the script, which is the name, and the name is my guiding principle.