Stories of people Of Agra

  S.P.A. Stories of people of Agra conducted By Agra Aur Hum . For most of us our name is a thing permanent to our existence but not for Erum Or as she likes to call herself now Atmiye.  Today let us introduce you to Atmiye Erum an enthusiastic, dynamic change maker who can't confined herself in one identity. A Biotechnologist who widely express herself in creativity like painting, dance, music and literature specifically poetry writing etc. She describes herself as a big winged creature.  Apart from a brief stint at  professional content writing, radio and teaching she is the founder of " JOURNEY TO ROOTS society".  One of her first initiative she associated herself with a bunch of friend in the city was" GO GET GARBAGE ", an awareness initiative for ZERO WASTE Or waste management at source.  Now, in Journey to Roots, she aims to create a slow, gradual, but a permanent positive change in the world. She began with जरूरत  and रसोई, The former is about r...

  S.A.P.  Stories of people of Agra conducted by Agra Aur Hum. Mishika Khetrapal is not an ordinary woman. As we all know, people are gradually getting aware of growing plants and nurturing them at home. Mishika has loved trees and plants since childhood. She has always taken good care of plants with immense dedication. She always wanted to remain connected to the environment and wanted to do something new for preserving the environment. She is also an animal lover, apart from being a plant lover. Mishika Ji holds a degree of Masters in Economics from Punjab University and is a Soft Skills coach. She has worked as a  teacher in Chandigarh for a long time. Agra being her home town she decided to do something for the natural environment here in her city. She has done a lot of terrarium making workshops in Delhi, Noida, Chandigarh and has been focusing on working for the environment for a long time.  She believes that nothing is a waster and something or the other can b...

  S.P.A.  Stories Of People Of Agra, Conducted by Agra Aur Hum. Prachi Verma is a dancer & a Youtuber from Agra. Prachi has 7600+ subscribers and 1.4 million + views with 60+ videos on her channel. She did her schooling from St. Francis’ Convent School, Agra. Now, she is pursuing B.Tech. in computer science from KIET Group Of Institutions, Ghaziabad. Prachi has been dancing since she was a kid of 4 years.  She never got any professional training in any dance form but just kept on participating in every school function, celebration and competition which gradually increased her love for dancing, specifically in the Indian classical dance form. In class 6, she started taking classes for Bharatnatyam dance form but unfortunately got diagnosed with malaria within just 2 weeks of the training, hence she had to discontinue the dance classes. In the following years, she couldn’t continue with the training as studies got prioritized over dance. In class 11 & 12, the studie...

  S.A.P.  ( Stories Of People Of Agra ) conducted by Agra Aur Hum  Sahil  Pradeep Chauhan is a guitarist, an artist a sportsperson and much more.  His talent exceeds his appearance and personality. The man is a mystery in himself.  He plays amazing guitar and his vocals have managed to always touch our hearts. A few years back he wasn't into music that much, but there were some turning points in his life which changed him and his future forever. Sahil's father is a very good musician, so he started teaching his son to play guitar and sing.  Everything that Sahil knows and has learnt is a gift from him.  But his focus got shifted on sports and dance.  When he was in 10th class, he got very good friends who kept him motivated and focused. Their support and motivation helped him put his interest in music and from there he never looked back. At the age of 17, when he was in school, he started music so well that today not only in Agra but in many ...

  S.P.A.  ( Stories Of People Of Agra)  - Dhanishtha Khullar  Conducted by Agra Aur Hum  Dhanishtha is a food blogger and a foodie who has a lot more to her personality than just exploring food. The only secret behind her success is that she transformed her choice into her work. Dhanishtha was so fond of food since childhood that along with exploring different food joints, Dhanishtha always clicked the photos of the dishes she relished, wherever she went. She did her schooling from Delhi Public School, Agra and her graduation from Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University. Today, due to her becoming a food blogger, the journey of the taste of food of the city of Agra saw many positive changes and her friends too contributed a lot towards her endeavours. Dhanishtha always tried to enhance her talent with each passing day and kept thinking about new ideas and focused on using her talent to the best of her capabilities. Last year in September 2019, she decided to ...

  S.P.A.  ( stories of people of Agra )  Conducted by Agra aur hum . Is our career only a means to pay the bills or the struggle is to find our mission. I graduated from law school with the dream of changing the status quo. I knew the responsibility of being a lawyer, a trailblazer of shielding the ‘Right To Equality’ which is the cornerstone of a string democracy. However, soon the dream of adding a ‘world view’ to my profession of being a lawyer was lost amidst billable hours, paying bills, career ladder and weekdays yearning for weekends. 5 years of being a corporate litigation lawyer looked as fancy on paper, however deep down I was unsatisfied and exhausted. In 2015, when I was escalated at a leadership position in my then workplace, I was perturbed by the under-representation of women in leadership roles in the legal industry (In India, the percentage of women in leadership positions in the legal industry is 15% only). I took cognisance of my observations and propos...

 S.P.A.  ( stories of people of agra )  Conducted by Agra aur hum . And the winner for MarsShot campaign 2020 is Dolly Aswani.  She is a social activist and the winner of the prestigious Marsshot campaign. She works in vivid fields of society across a plethora of sections ranging from women empowerment, sexual abuse awareness, menstrual hygiene, she has got it all covered. Her gunshot for this race against social ills was sounded at Banasthali University where she started working for the Women Empowerment Cell of her college After completing her  B. Tech from the university she chose the most obvious path for any engineer of not doing engineering 😉, rather joining a Delhi based NGO as it's Operational manager, working her way across various organizations and schools she has constantly been at her toes to get things going for the society. One of her recent initiatives was a " GOOD TOUCH BAD TOUCH " workshop conducted insubordination with the noted NGO, " EK PAHA...

S.P.A  ( Stories of people of Agra ) Conducted by Agra Aur Hum.  It all started when I was 11 and the kitchen became my personal heaven.  Since then all I’ve always wanted to do was bake and make everyone around me happy.  My dream motivated me to learn more about baking and so I started practising it every day, hence I am mostly self-taught, and after a few years, I gathered enough courage to convert my dream into a reality.  I started operating ShubhangisKitchen 3 years ago from home and it has been the same ever since. For the first two years, it was only take away but since last year, I have started home delivery as well.  Every journey has its own ups and downs and I’d be lying if I say mine was any different.  I did struggle with balancing my work and academics, giving equal time to family and friends and financial issues as well. Besides this, there are time restrictions as to when I can leave the house to acquire products.  But all these c...

S.P.A. ( Stories of People of Agra)  Conducted by  Agra aur hum  let's talk about Om Sharma renowned photographer in Agra.  Happiness is on their face today.  At some point in time, there was a desire to move forward on this face and to pursue his name in the field of photography.  His childhood was spent in Agra at Nani and Nana ji's house.  Mummy Papa died in his childhood.  He did his schooling at SS Public School in Agra.  His mind was always engaged in photography.  While Om was in 9th standard he wanted to become a Disc Jockey (DJ) and for a short while, he worked as one. At the age of 15, he developed an interest in photography and decided to pursue it and earn through it. Initially, Om Sharma did not have a camera, but he used to borrow cameras from his friends to do portfolio shoots.  Sometimes friends could not give him the camera. Then he was very sad. His Mausaji (Maternal uncle) Mukesh Shukla helped him buy his very fir...

S.P.A  ( Stories of people of Agra) Rohan Verma   Conducted by agraaurhum   Rohan a.k.a. Rover is a rapper based out of our city. He started rapping to the tunes of Eminem's Love the Way You Lie when he was in Standard 7(2010). It has been a decade of attachment to hip-hop music for him. . After completing schooling from St. Peter's College, Agra, he graduated in BMS from Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, DU. He even performed a couple of times in his school and college events. . He began writing raps in English in 2017 but has switched to Hindi since the past one and a half year.  When asked what he puts into his songs/verses, he said - "I try to include my personal experiences, my past learnings, a subtle messaging about what's wrong with the world these days. I usually keep my tracks casual, I want people to listen to them anytime, anywhere, in any mood." . Rapping is a passion to him and we can support that statement after listening to his lyrics,...