Our third event was in Mumbai, where 27 alumni attended. Our guest speaker was Your Nottingham Alumni Award winner Dr Medha Tadpritakar (MBA, 1990), who spoke about her journey as an entrepreneur, developing plastic-to-fuel processes by experimenting with a pressure cooker in her kitchen, just because she wondered if she could!
Medha is a TEDx speaker, writer, and entrepreneur, passionate about raising awareness of segregation and the collection of plastic waste. Her efforts have helped collect more than 3.6m kilogrammes of plastic waste across India, converting it into fuel.
One guest travelled all the way from Hyderabad (over 700km away!) to reunite with a friend who graduated from Nottingham in the same year. We heard great stories from alumni at the event, including Rahul Rajpurohit (International Commercial Law, 2009) who has written a book: “Introduction to Marine Laws: An Indian Perspective,” which was published by Bloomsbury in February 2023. He spent almost every weekend working on it over the previous 11 years and said the idea came to him when he was studying in Hallward Library. It was then at Nottingham that he started gathering material for the book.
Our final event was in Delhi, with 40 alumni joining Emma and Hannah. Our guest speaker was Rajat Shubhro Mukherjee (Public Administration, 2018), a climate action and finance professional. He currently works as a Climate Finance Specialist with London-based development organisation, C40 Cities, where he works with industry to decarbonise logistics - he shared his experiences working remotely for an organisation based outside of India.
Another fascinating story from the event came from Mayank Jain (Business Administration and Management 2003), owner of Surabhi International, a jewellery business that Mayank started from a small shop in Beeston and then took back to India!