SRCC graduate and a Chartered Accountant, Deepti started her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in consulting. She led various roles in operations, finance, sales, commercials, governance, investor relations, mergers and acquisitions.
Large part of experience has been in technology, digital content and Internet industry with organisations like exlservice, Apollo Health, Network 18 Group, American Swan and Sheroes. Having played hands-on leadership roles at start-ups and early stage organisations, she specialises in building roadmaps for companies to build operations, growth engines, commercial partnerships, improve unit economics and manage talent.
She believes education and Internet are the pillars of the next build of a flat world. Deepti envisioned Curious Times for ‘first-time non-fiction content and media users’. Deepti aims to make global information and resources accessible for tweens and teens. The high-on-trust platform would enable participation and peer learning thereby building the key 21st century skills.
Deepti is also an advisor with SHEROES, a women’s empowerment platform and Saarthi Education, a non-profit working in the space of early education of underprivileged children.
Siddhartha Jain
Co-Founder
Siddhartha holds a degree in Math and Computing from IIT Delhi. He has worked in different product and business leadership roles for consumer products, scaling them to achieve business goals within the constraints of available capabilities, data, information and resources.
He started his career as an engineer, creating large-scale web search and indexing tools, and has also worked on Voice of IP telephony solutions. His foray in the mobile app development pre-iPhone/Android era started when he led the creation of cross-platform mobile app development tools.
As CEO of Spice Labs, Siddhartha led 100 million downloads globally of its games, monetised by an in-house Ad Mediation platform. Since moving out of Spice Labs, he has worked as a strategy, data analytics and engineering consultant for global companies.
Siddhartha is currently focused on understanding the education landscape in India. He is working on the ground, both with organisations focused on K-12 and tech education, where he believes there are big gaps to fill.
He has been involved in social efforts and supports Adharshila, a tribal school in rural Madhya Pradesh and Saarthi Education, a non-profit in early education. He has also worked on the air pollution problem in North India, focusing on measurement and awareness.
Atu
Content Manager
Atu prefers the quieter side of life. Atu enjoys watching sports and is deeply interested in art, pop culture and current social issues. She has worked with cultural organisations as well as with non-profit social organisations. To write something new, she believes in learning something new every single day, which makes her the right person to bring Curious Times readers a wide variety of news.
Hailing from Nagaland, the passion to pursue English literature brought Atu to Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University, and she adopted Delhi/ NCR (minus the pollution). Her education, coupled with her diverse experience in publishing, social sector and cultural organisations, makes Atu passionate about exploring and writing. She continues her hopeful search for top-quality relevant news and information while ensuring impeccable grammar, no typos and correct usage of the Oxford comma!
Shefali Ahuja-Gupta
Child Development and Learning Specialist
Shefali loves rain, running and reading. She is always searching for new places to visit and new recipes to cook. A great fan of the outdoors, she loves to curl up with a book too! Friends are her life, and connecting with young minds keeps her energised!
Having served the Banking and Insurance sector for more than 13 years, Shefali pursued a Master’s in Learning and Teaching to build a deeper understanding of Child Development and Learning. Working closely with primary- and middle-school children inside as well as outside the classroom made her hands-on in child development and learning. Being a mother to two middle schoolers has supported this transition. Her family motto resonates with Henry Ford’s words: “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” Shefali believes Curious Times is that one place where we never grow old, as we never stop learning and look at the world from the eyes of tweens and teens.
Anupama Pradeepan
News Content Writer
Anupama considers herself to be a ‘Wanderer’. She likes experimenting with her life. Being restless makes her happy. By profession, she is a curriculum creator and academic advisor. She is the co-founder of Open Space Foundation, an organisation which works to foster scientific temper among local communities.
Having graduated in physics, she pursued a Master’s degree in local governance & development. She is an aspiring researcher in the field of educational governance. Researching alongside the TISS on social issues such as human trafficking made Anupama realise the pulse of the existing social landscape. Curious Times is her place to connect all the dots and share her learnings with the students across the globe. The daily research on what’s happening around the world makes her canvas bigger and bigger.
Arpitha
News Content Writer
Arpitha loves solving math problems, logical puzzles, making colourful rangoli, home decoration, dressing kids, being a beautician and traveling, all at the same time. She also has a penchant for event management, both hosting and anchoring. And when that’s not enough, she loves to research, read and write.
Arpitha is a postgraduate in mathematics, knows programming, and has served various roles in curriculum building, teaching and marketing. She strongly believes in a holistic approach to education. She wishes to apply what she has learned in building something valuable. Curious Times is her way to connect with students around the world and her excuse to learn something new every day.
Tasneem Sariya
News and SEO Writer
A former Google employee who created maps, Tasneem is not always good with directions! She likes to travel and doesn’t mind getting lost (this has happened a couple of times!). She enjoys writing because that is the best way she can express herself. And yes, a good mystery book, a Harry Potter movie and a walk by the beach can always lighten her up.
Tasneem is a graduate in Geography and has done her masters in Sociology. Her best learning years were in college and then at Google where she was a part of the Maps team. Today, she is an independent writer focusing on niche travel and parenting platforms. She enjoys writing particularly about travel because she can learn and explore new places, cultures and people without actually visiting them. Her learning years have kicked in again at Curious Times, as she researches and writes on diverse topics and simplifies them for young readers.
Trushika Narang
News Content Writer
A journalism career with NEWS 18 did not turn Trushika into a politics lover, but it brought out the writer in her. Trushika loves reading and writing about the little things which remain unnoticed in our surroundings. Curious Times is home to her, as she brings out the lesser-known details through her research for the most important topics. Smiles on her readers’ faces excite her the most.
Trushika is a mass communication graduate from Delhi University. In order to explore the field of communications, she pursued the Advertising & Public Relations Diploma from Punjab University, Chandigarh. She truly believes that words have a longer and greater impact in our lives. That’s the reason she likes to write blogs and share her thoughts and opinions globally.
Trushika has also been associated with the Development sector for 2 years and impacted the lives of thousands of schoolchildren through her work. She is also looking forward to working for a Women Empowerment Program where she can encourage girls to choose their careers and lead a bold, confident, independent and happy life!
Unny Radhakrishnan
Advisor – Growth and marketing
Unny loves travel, treks & hikes, reading, and pondering about the purpose of existence. ‘Trying to make sense of this world’ is how he likes to describe his almost constant state of being. Working with people and building teams is what he has enjoyed the most in his professional career. Having spent a career in marketing and communication, driving growth comes naturally to him.
Unny is the Chief People & Business Officer at SHEROES, world’s largest Women Social Network. A graduate from University of Calicut, Unny has over 20 years’ experience in the IT, Marketing, and Communications. Unny has served various roles in organisations Sterling Holiday Resorts, Alacrity Housing, BridgeOver TW/ Xerago. Prior to SHEROES, he spent over a decade at GroupM/ WPP; last as Chief Digital Officer – South Asia at Wavemaker, where he led a young team of over 200 people in media, creative, and technology disciplines.
Unny is a growth advisor with Curious Times. He also serves as an Advisor to Rustik Travel, experiential travel company, InnoServ Digital, a digital marketing agency.
