In life there is so much inspiration around that sometimes in
quest for a big one we often ignore the nearby smaller ones. After all not
every inspiration needs to be the ultimate rags-to-riches story. Be it the 20
women entrepreneurs of Super Women or the 19 couples of Super Couples, Prachi
Garg successfully brings the lesser-known success stories of entrepreneurial
innovations and brilliance.
In the former, if some
stories are about pure business acumen at display, some talk about women who
successfully merged a social cause with their respective careers. Their
ventures range from empowering rural artisans, providing online counselling to
depressed and more, supporting victims of acid attacks, skin care solutions,
making lingerie shopping easier for women, image consulting, house hunting to
making religious ceremonies simpler.
The author not only tracks
these women’s successes but also effectively dwells into the road before. Like
a friend’s depression inspiring Richa Singh to lend an ear to all those going
through tough times with her enterprise – Your D.O.S.T. Then there is Richa Kar
who helped women by making lingerie shopping an enjoyable experience with her
online retail store – Zivame, rather than a taxing or taboo one in many cases.
While for some of these women, support and motivation from people in their
lives came logically, some, obviously and expectedly, had to prove themselves
to many raised eyebrows and doubting mouths and minds.
Written in simple and
familiar newspaper article or feature style, with quotes from the subject, this
150-page book clearly shows how a dream, irrespective of its size, is the only
thing you need to kick-start something fabulous in life. It is, however, when
you reach a para claiming the person concerned is from ‘one if the best
institutes of the country’, your curious mind automatically wants to know which
one, something the second book also does to you sometimes.
"Prachi’s Super Couples" gives us sneak-peek into the lives of people coming from different backgrounds
to defy the age-old yet questionable wisdom of ‘don’t mix personal life and
work’. These couple have not only shown to have brought out the best in each
other, but it seems that the struggles that went through together en route to
establishing their businesses. Their enterprises providing services in
ecommerce, innovative gifts, eco-friendly products, health care solutions,
social responsibility ventures, event management, digital solutions and many
others, are also stories in love, sticking by each other’s side through thick
and thin, mutual and individual goals, hardships and achievements.
Be it Meenakshi and Jey
literally painting the towns red (travelling across the country to paint their
message of love and peace), Smriti-Sameer selling flowers across the country or
Mudhurita and Yuvraj doing their bit to help animals, these couples chose to go
the unconventional way and become more of soul mates than they could have been
otherwise.
Super Women
Paperback, 192 pages (Srishti Publishers & Distributors)
₹ 175
Super Couples
Paperback, 168 pages (Srishti Publishers & Distributors)
₹ 195
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