The International Women's Day Quiz
When you are fighting a never-ending battle against age-old gender bias and working towards an inclusive future for all genders, every small step counts. This quiz by Charmiane Alexander and Mansi Gupta is an effort to doff their hat to some of the wonderful women in our industry who caught their attention
08 Mar 2022 | 5164 Views | By PrintWeek Team
Question #1:
She is the co-founder and director at Pune-based Elephant Design. In the past 33 years, the agency has created packaging designs for A-List brands like Britannia Marie Gold, Tata Salt, Gillette Guard, Kurkure, ICICI Bank, Paper Boat, Viacom18, Uber. Clue: She is our favourite-most jury member at the PrintWeek Awards.
A: Ashwini Deshpande.
Question #2:
She is the chairperson and editorial director of one of India's largest newspapers and media houses. (Clue: She was a Padma Shri award nominee for the journalism category in 2005)
A: Shobhana Bhartia of HT Media.
Question #3:
She was recognised as America’s first woman newspaper editor and publisher, and one of the world’s first woman journalists.
A: Elizabeth Timothy (or Timothee). She became the first woman to publish a newspaper in America in 1738.
Question #4:
She is India's wealthiest self-made woman billionaire whose company dates back to 2012, and almost a decade later, her IPO was oversubscribed nearly 82.5 times.
A: Falguni Nayar of Nyyka.
Question #5:
From co-founding her company in 2016, she has over 800 success stories to share. Her honorary moments include being listed in Forbes 30 under 30, Asia in Science and Healthcare. Clue: She is a prominent name in the 3D printing industry for healthcare.
A. Firoza Kothari, Anatomiz3D.
Question #6:
She has penned the screenplay for one of the biggest Bollywood blockbusters. Today she helms one of the largest consumable brands whose team reaches out to most of the pin codes that exist in India. Who is she?
A: TechNova's joint managing director Sheena Parikh.
Question #7:
She is the brains behind this Noida based start-up that developed biodegradable bottles as an alternative to plastic bottles.
A: Samiksha Ganeriwal, Kagzi Bottles.
Question #8:
MBD (Malhotra Book Depot) started in Jalandhar in 1956. What is the name of the managing director of the group? (Clue: She won the Outstanding Business Woman of the Year Award by the PHD Chamber)
A: Monica Malhotra Kandhari.
Question #9:
She is a waste management specialist with the UN-Habitat Regional Office for Asia and Pacific (ROAP). She is the co-author of Not in My Backyard: Solid Waste Management in Indian Cities. Who is she?
A: Swati Singh Samayal.
Question #10:
She is the managing director of International Print-o-Pac (IPP), PrintWeek's Company of the Year 2010.
A: Amila Singhvi.
Question #11:
This Pune-based company was established in 1994. Her specialisation is the ability to print electronic devices such as printed batteries, printed transistors. (Clue: Her favourite job is printing of multicolour overlays as well as printing of conductive structure related to printed electronics). Who is she?
A: Mrunal Rajesh Kulkarni. She is the admin-director of Keetronics.
Question #12:
Recently, she said, "Our industry hardly represents a sizable percentage of women. We need to have a platform where more women are attracted to join the industry." Her company manufactures thermal lamination kits.
A: Sonal Sheth of Daya Printograph.
Question #13:
The ink in Kolkata-based Anandabazar Patrika Media Group runs in her blood. But book publishing is her passion and profession. It began with London-based company Bloomsbury Publishing. And then, Random House and Penguin Books India. Ten years ago, she was a trailblazer in book publishing.
A: Chiki Sarkar, founder and publisher of Juggernaut Books.
Question #14:
The two of them are very popular with their students. One heads PVG's Department of Printing Engineering and the other heads the Printing Technology stream at Avinashilingam Institute.
A: Madhura Mahajan (Pune) and TKS Lakshmi Priya (Coimbatore).
Question #15:
She was a French printer and seller of liturgical and devotional books in Paris. She was among a handful of important woman book printers in Paris during this period.
A: Yolande Bonhomme.
Question #16:
The print industry had innumerable associations. She was the president of the Mumbai Mudrak Sangh from 2013 to 2015.
A: Medha Virkar of Mumbai-based Kaleido Graphics.
Question #17:
Once a publisher, always a publisher. She is the third generation at Vani Prakashan - and oversees a catalogue of more than 5,000 books.
A: Aditi Maheshwari, the director for copyrights and translation department at the Delhi-based publishing firm.
Question #18:
She was managing director at DY Works for over a decade. She moved on from the corporate to start out her own brand consultancy and design "outfit". Plus an independent director at Nyyka - and director on the board of Cosmo Films.
A: Alpana Parida.
Question #19:
She is the CEO at Lodestar UM and launched more than 100 brands in media through her career and worked with over 200 clients including large multinationals like Samsung, J&J, BMW, Tata, Mahindra, Amul, Marico. She works for a Plastic Free World.
A: Nandini Dias.
Question #20:
Her bestseller is in the news for being an intimate and powerful memoir. She is the former CEO of PepsiCo for a dozen years.
A. Indra Nooyi. And her book is My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future.
Winners: Amit Khurana (TechNova Imaging Systems) and Surya K S (Avinashilingam University)