Founder, Indian Women in Hospitality (IWH). She is a Professor, Corporate Trainer, Motivational Speaker and a Blogger. A multiple award winning hospitality professional with a career spanning over two decades; people engagement, training and development are close to her heart. She writes for hospitality journals, online platforms and columns in the local newspapers. Married to a Master Mariner, Capt. Rajesh Todiwan, she loves to write on the maritime industry as well as the lives and relationships of the fraternity. She expresses her thoughts on her blog and website
The thrill of homecoming hasn’t changed from time immemorial. Coming home to the family makes the work richer, easier, meaningful and more fun. It is tremendous source of joy and excitement after completion of the contract. Also an intense relief regarding your beloved husband’s safe return home, but you can’t keep calm until you see him in […]
Received a forwarded message on my whatsapp and I felt it being so true. Sharing it here with due credits to the author, poet or sailor. Salute to him for beautifully expressing his thoughts and sharing a page from his life, speaking not just for himself but the entire fraternity. I know they are men of […]
Mumbai was in water on 29th August 2017. It received the highest rainfall after 1997 on one single day. How is it memorable for me? I was in office along with a few colleagues, there were news updates about how it was going to get worse as the rain had not stopped. Finally people were asked […]
I was addressing a group of young hospitality professionals. The lecture began with how the Indian Hotel Industry was in the past, the current scenario and what could one expect in future. It was a pretty interactive session, much more than I expected it to be, overshooting the time! Let me not bore you with the […]
The making of a queen I recently discovered that a sailor’s wife is actually called a Queen! Late discovery but the feel of it has been there for ages. After the late discovery…. why is it sounding like a late harvest to me? May be I am putting all those moments as ingredients for making a good […]
It’s certainly being brave being a wife; no matter whose! Am sure you’ve heard the saying, Men are from Mars and women are from Venus. I haven’t read the book though, by the same title written by John Gray. It was always on the back burner and still remains there! May be one day soon I […]
I was having a conversation with my husband the other day, as I turned 40. I was going to divulge in that…. it’s some feeling you see! Asked him if 40 was the new 20? He laughed saying, “If you are asking me how you look; then I would say 20, mentally may be 15!” […]
Dream is a beautiful word and has many meanings. It carries different interpretations for different individuals. The dictionary describes it as, “a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person’s mind during sleep.” There are dreams that you see in your sleep and there are those that keep you going after them, forgetting whether you […]
Read this interesting article on this Mother’s Day about it origins and how it came in practice. A must read on this occasion.I got a message from one of my ex students who is an entrepreneur and a public speaker, saying that he’d asked one of his colleagues to get in touch with me for […]
I was talking to a shippy, (pet name for the mariners or sailors) the other day. I happened to tell him that like me, my husband too was a hands on trainer; in fact he was a whole training school. He is tough but his juniors get so much to learn from him and free […]
