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A CELEBRATION OF INDIA’S CULINARY TRAILBLAZERS

Top 30 Chefs of India Revealed at FoodSuperstars 2024 in Udaipur by Culinary Culture

UDAIPUR, India, Oct. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Culinary Culture proudly concluded the third edition of FoodSuperstars – India’s Top 30 Chefs, presented by Zoya, on October 21, 2024, in the stunning city of Udaipur. Hosted by Vir Sanghvi, Chairman of Culinary Culture, this prestigious awards ceremony celebrated the culinary artists transforming India’s food landscape with their innovation and passion.

The event was a resounding success, showcasing a remarkable lineup of talented chefs flown in from across the country. The coveted No. 1 rank went to Chef Hussain Shahzad recognized for his restaurants which include The Bombay Canteen, O Pedro and Papa’s. The list welcomed seven new entrants and five returning chefs to the list, including Prateek Sadhu, Manu Chandra, Suresh Pillai and celebrated vibrant culinary talent from eight cities, with Mumbai securing the highest representation at ten spots.

Dressed in bespoke scarves from Tasva by Tarun Tahiliani, the chefs took center stage as the list was revealed in descending order. The event also honored Special Award recipients, including the late Imtiaz Qureshi, who was posthumously awarded the Legend Chef Award. Previous No. 1 chefs, such as Regi Mathew, were also celebrated as they joined Manish Mehrotra in the Hall of Fame, underscoring their lasting influence on the culinary landscape.

Raaj Sanghvi, CEO of Culinary Culture, expressed his enthusiasm: “We are immensely grateful for the industry’s support for this unique platform. A huge congratulations to Hussain for being ranked No. 1, and to all our FoodSuperstars. It’s heartening to witness the amazing community of chefs we’ve built over the past three years. Thank you to our partners—Zoya, Veeba, Fratelli, Bisleri Vedica, and Tarun Tahiliani with Tasva. We look forward to seeing you next year in a new Indian city for the fourth edition, which we aim to make even bigger!”

The selection process for FoodSuperstars is rigorous, conducted by a dedicated team of over 40 FoodHunters who traveled the nation to identify outstanding culinary talents. Each nomination is thoroughly vetted and debated before being presented to Culinary Culture’s Secret Jury which is overseen by Vir Sanghvi, ensuring that only the most deserving chefs make the final list.

Importantly, FoodSuperstars maintains its integrity by not accepting any form of advertising or commercial considerations from restaurants or hotels, and the list remains completely confidential until it is revealed live at the ceremony. In a groundbreaking approach, these awards focus on the chefs themselves, independent of their restaurant affiliations, ensuring that recognition stays with the chefs throughout their careers.

Bikram Basu, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at ABDL, remarked, “On behalf of the entire ABDL team, heartiest congratulations to Chef Hussain Shahzad for being ranked No. 1, and to all the culinary artists who were a part of this year’s FoodSuperstars. It’s indeed a pleasure to collaborate ZOYA with FoodSuperstars, a platform that celebrates and recognizes the versatility of taste, flavors and aroma crafted by the amazing convergence of chefs.”

As the culinary community gathered to celebrate excellence and creativity, this year’s No. 1 Chef, Hussain Shahzad, shared their gratitude: “Thank you Culinary Culture and all the FoodSuperstars partners for this honor. I am grateful to be part of this amazing community and this will inspire me to work harder to be worthy of this responsibility. Thank you for making chefs feel special.”

FoodSuperstars 2024, held over two days and featuring a day of panel discussions known as Culinary Conversations, was more than just an awards ceremony; it was a vibrant celebration of food, creativity, and talent. This event brought together India’s finest chefs, allowing them to create unforgettable memories against the breathtaking backdrop of Udaipur.

The Top 30 Chefs honored with the prestigious title of FoodSuperstars for 2024 are:

  1. Hussain Shahzad
  2. Johnson Ebenezer
  3. Gresham Fernandes
  4. Varun Totlani
  5. Niyati Rao
  6. Manu Chandra
  7. Alex Sanchez
  8. Prateek Sadhu
  9. Jai Prakash Singh
  10. Nooresha Kably
  11. Naren Thimmaiah
  12. Rahul Gomes Pereira
  13. Avinash Martins
  14. Shantanu Mehrotra
  15. Doma Wang
  16. Nikhil Nagpal
  17. Manuel Oliveira
  18. Pooja Dhingra
  19. Lakhan Jethani
  20. Amninder Sandhu
  21. Sahil Mehta
  22. Shubham Thakur
  23. Julia Carmen Desa
  24. Kavan Kuttappa
  25. Vanshika Bhatia
  26. Manish Sharma
  27. Seefah Ketchaiyo
  28. Chalapathi Rao
  29. Adwait Anantwar
  30. Shri Bala

Legend Chef 2024 by Culinary Culture: Imtiaz Qureshi 

Pastry Chef 2024 by Veeba: Vinesh Johny

Young Chef 2024 by Fratelli: Ralph Prazeres

Sustainable Chef 2024 by Zoya: Neeraj Rawoot

People’s Chef 2024 by Vedica: Suresh Pillai

For more information about FoodSuperstars and to discover India’s Top 30 Chefs of 2024, visit www.CulinaryCulture.co or follow us on Instagram @CulinaryCultureCo.

About Culinary Culture

Culinary Culture stands as India’s definitive voice in food. Co-founded by Vir Sanghvi and Sameer Sain, it represents a comprehensive movement that encompasses every facet of India’s culinary landscape. As the country’s only authoritative and independent rating organization, Culinary Culture bestows stars upon restaurants, honors exceptional chefs, and pays tribute to the country’s vibrant street food vendors. Culinary Culture is renowned for its global Culinary Exchanges, inviting the world’s most celebrated chefs to showcase their talents in India while sending Indian chefs to cook at the world’s finest restaurants. Culinary Culture boasts an esteemed academy of FoodHunters, comprising over 40 of India’s most prominent food experts, strategically located across the country. Other popular IPs include Ultimate Restaurant Ratings, FoodSuperstars, Culinary Conversations and StreetFoodSuperstars.

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MSEED and SCOPE Global Skills University Sign Strategic Partnership to Shape the Future of Experiential Marketing Education

MUMBAI, India and BHOPAL, India, May 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Premium education institute MSEED (The Management School of Events and Experience Design) today partnered with SCOPE Global Skills University, Bhopal, to introduce a two-year MBA in Event Management and Experiential Marketing.

Besides boosting students academically, this association intends to equip them with the evolving demands of events and the experiential marketing ecosystem. Furthermore, the collaboration will be fueled by industry expertise and academic structure, helping students build a career in the fast-growing fields of events, entertainment, and experiential marketing.

At a time when experiential marketing is ‘evolving from a tactical activation to a strategic growth engine for brands’, this collaboration serves right.

Speaking on this exclusive partnership between MSEED and SCOPE, Joshua Newman, Vice-President – Marketing & Partnerships, MSEED, said, “Our focus has always been on outcomes, not just education. This partnership allows us to extend that vision by working with SCOPE Global Skills University to create a program that prepares students for real careers. From curriculum to classroom delivery and industry exposure, every aspect is designed to ensure that students graduate with confidence, clarity, and practical experience.”

The MBA program is designed to:

  • Provide a recognized postgraduate qualification with a specialized focus
  • Build practical skills through real-world projects and case studies
  • Offering industry interaction, mentorship, and exposure
  • Support students with internship and placement opportunities

Dr. Vijay Singh, Vice Chancellor of SGSU, hailed the launch as a landmark moment for the city. “This is a remarkable event not just for our university, but for the city of Bhopal. We are witnessing a paradigm shift in how specialized education is delivered in Madhya Pradesh. By launching this MBA in Event Management, we are providing our youth with a platform to master the art of execution, creativity, and management right here in their home state,” he said.

The partnership was formally cemented through the signing of an agreement between the two institutions in the esteemed presence of Mangubhai C. Patel, the current and 19th Governor of Madhya Pradesh, marking a significant milestone in the evolution of industry-integrated education in India.

For more information on events and experiential marketing, please visit our website.

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About MSEED

MSEED, a part of EVA Group, India’s one of the largest live event companies, and backed by 200 odd industry veterans, the institute brings with it deep-rooted industry expertise and real-world insights. It is a creative business institute designed for the next generation of storytellers, strategists, producers, and brand builders. The mission is not just to prepare students for jobs, but to lead industries. 

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Firstsource Partners with Typeface to Launch Agentic Marketing Services

New full-stack offering turns content operations into an agentic growth engine

NEW YORK and MUMBAI, India, April 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Firstsource Solutions Limited (NSE: FSL) (BSE: 532809), an RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group company, today announced the launch of a new offering — Agentic Marketing Services — in partnership with Typeface, the marketing orchestration engine for the world’s leading enterprises. The offering is designed to help enterprises move from marketing ambition to scale by transforming, implementing, and operating AI-native marketing systems. It transforms marketing operations into a scalable growth engine and delivers measurable top-line revenue growth beyond operational efficiency alone.

 

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Agentic AI is redefining how enterprises think about the customer lifecycle, and marketing content sits at the center of that transformation. Enterprises deploying AI-driven personalization are seeing up to 40% higher revenue compared to their peers. Content operations is both a growth lever and an efficiency play for CMOs: roughly 30% of CMO budgets go to content; approximately 55% of content work is manual — resizing, localization, brand compliance — while 90% of those manual workflows can be AI-enabled.

“At Firstsource, our approach has been about moving beyond traditional boundaries to build adaptive, intelligence-led ecosystems that deliver measurable outcomes. Content operations is now the most disrupted layer of the modern marketing stack, with Large Language Models reshaping the entire value chain — from ideation and production to governance and distribution — making it both the biggest near-term efficiency opportunity and the most exposed surface area in enterprise marketing,” said Ritesh Idnani, MD and Chief Executive Officer of Firstsource.

“CEOs and CMOs are not looking for a consultancy that hands off a roadmap or an agency that operates in silos — they want a partner who can transform, implement, and operate marketing systems end-to-end. By combining micro-segmentation, personalization, and deep industry context, we help clients build acquisition, engagement, and retention engines that are intelligent, compliant, and scalable. Typeface brings the AI technology to generate personalized, on-brand, compliant content at scale, and Firstsource brings deep experience in customer operations, especially in regulated industries like banking, financial services, healthcare, and retail. Together, we enable enterprises to plan, build, and run modern marketing — turning content operations into a compounding growth engine and delivering outcomes, not just effort.”

The partnership extends the capabilities announced with Typeface’s recent Marketing Orchestration Engine launch — bringing governed AI systems into full-stack marketing operations for regulated enterprises.

“AI only transforms marketing when it’s embedded into the workflows that drive real customer outcomes,” said Abhay Parasnis, Founder & CEO of Typeface. “Firstsource brings deep industry expertise and operational rigor in highly regulated environments. Together, we’re helping enterprises turn AI ambition into operational reality, embedding governed intelligence into the systems that power durable growth.” 

While Typeface provides the orchestration layer that unifies brand intelligence, AI agents, and enterprise systems, Firstsource brings the operational expertise and insights to enable effective decision making and implement and run these systems in complex, regulated environments. Together, they redesign how growth is driven — focusing on the moments, segments, and mechanisms that truly move the needle — enabling enterprises to shift from fragmented activity to scalable, revenue-led execution.

Industry view

“In retail, seasonality and micro-segmentation are where revenue is won or lost. Every peak moment demands thousands of personalized variants across marketing, service, and customer operations — and the retailers who get this right see real movement on acquisition, conversion, and retention, not just efficiency. What makes the Firstsource–Typeface offering different is that it is not another tool — it is an operating capability. Pairing agentic AI with embedded marketing operations is exactly what retailers need to move from broad campaigns to true lifecycle-driven engagement. For the industry, this is a meaningful step-change in how growth gets engineered.”

– Dave Kimbell, Ex-CEO Ulta Beauty; Firstsource Advisory Board Member

“Healthcare payers sit on a real paradox: a huge share of member communication is locked inside PHI and claims workflows where the rules are clear and rightly strict — but the biggest lever on affordability lives outside that envelope, in how payers engage members on wellness, prevention, plan literacy, and proactive disease management. That is a white-space opportunity the industry has barely touched. This is where marketing AI services can genuinely move the needle. With micro-segmentation and agentic content, payers can reach the right member with the right nudge at the right moment — entirely within compliant, non-PHI pathways — and shift the engagement model from acquisition and retention to lifelong wellness. That is how you make healthcare more affordable, improve member experience, and strengthen the economics of the plan at the same time. The Firstsource–Typeface offering is one of the few capabilities purpose-built to operate at that intersection of compliance, personalization, and outcomes.”

– Paul Sanford, Ex-EVP Operations, Cigna Group; Firstsource Advisory Board Member

About Firstsource

Firstsource Solutions Limited, an RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group company (NSE: FSL) (BSE: 532809), is a global intelligence partner to enterprises across healthcare, banking and financial services, communications, media, technology, retail, and utilities. Its inch-wide, mile-deep practitioners work collaboratively to reimagine business process management.

With operations across the US, UK, India, Philippines, Mexico, Romania, Trinidad & Tobago, South Africa, and Australia, Firstsource combines over twenty-five years of domain expertise with an agent-first delivery model to design, build, and operate intelligent enterprise operations. Through its Intelligence That Operates promise—powered by Kairos, the operating system that makes it real—the company unifies consulting, implementation, and operations into a single full-stack engagement and underwrites outcomes, not effort, turning deep domain intelligence into a compounding operational advantage for firms in the world’s most regulated industries. (www.firstsource.com)

About Typeface

Typeface is a marketing orchestration engine for the world’s leading enterprises, coordinating brand intelligence, AI agents, and enterprise systems across cross-channel marketing operations. Built for large organizations, Typeface combines shared brand intelligence, governed agent workflows, and deep enterprise integration at scale — connecting seamlessly with platforms like Salesforce, Microsoft, and Google — to help teams scale what works without sacrificing quality or control. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies, Typeface enables organizations to operationalize AI inside real marketing workflows, turning brand standards, approvals, and performance signals into coordinated systems that improve over time. Typeface is backed by Lightspeed, GV, Salesforce Ventures, Madrona, Menlo, and M12, and has been recognized by Fast Company, Gartner, TIME, LinkedIn, and Adweek as a leader in AI for marketing. Learn more at www.typeface.ai.

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Shaping Future-Ready School Leaders: Woxsen University Leads Design Thinking Initiative for Principals

HYDERABAD, India, April 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The School of Arts and Design at Woxsen University, in collaboration with the Public-School Principals’ Association (PSPA), conducted a Principal Leadership Programme on April 27, bringing together 30 principals from leading schools across Hyderabad for an immersive, design-led learning experience focused on rethinking leadership in contemporary education.

Participating institutions included Delhi Public School, Sloka International School (Tukkuguda), Jain Heritage Cambridge School, AVN Vida International School, CMR School (Medchal), and Gitanjali High School, among others. Designed as a hands-on, studio-based workshop, the programme moved beyond traditional formats, enabling participants to engage in collaborative problem-solving, systems thinking, and real-world leadership challenges.

The programme was delivered by Woxsen’s Centre for Learning Design (CLD) and the David Dunne Design Thinking Lab, and was guided by the university’s ERS (Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability) framework, reflecting an integrated and purpose-driven approach to leadership development.

Through guided design thinking exercises, principals explored new approaches to decision-making, innovation in school ecosystems, and building student-centric learning environments. The interactive format encouraged peer exchange and practical application, making the experience directly relevant to institutional leadership.

Rajendra Prasad, President of the PSPA, said, “The School Principals’ Leadership Workshop at Woxsen University was well organized and delivered with great impact. The sessions were highly engaging and insightful, and the programme received overwhelming positive feedback from participants for both its content and overall experience.”

Dr. Ashok Pandey, Member of the PSPA Leadership Team, shared, “An inspiring day at the picturesque Woxsen University campus, engaging with exceptional school leaders committed to designing the schools of tomorrow.” 

Dr. Adity Saxena, Dean, School of Arts & Design, said, “This programme is aligned with Woxsen’s core pillar of Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability, reinforcing our commitment to purpose-driven education. We see our role as bridging ideas, institutions, and impact in education, and we are grateful to PSPA and Rajendra Prasad for this meaningful collaboration.”

The initiative reflects Woxsen University’s commitment to strengthening the school education ecosystem in Telangana by building leadership capacity and fostering future-ready thinking among educators. Following the workshop, the PSPA leadership team engaged in a strategic discussion with Dr. Adity Saxena to explore future collaboration opportunities.

Building on the momentum of the programme, Woxsen University and PSPA are exploring the launch of a structured Principal Leadership Certificate Programme. The proposed initiative aims to institutionalize leadership development for school heads and further strengthen the region’s education ecosystem through sustained, practice-oriented engagement.

About Woxsen University, Hyderabad

Woxsen University, located in Hyderabad, is one of the first private universities in the state of Telangana, India. Renowned for its 200-acre state-of-the-art campus and infrastructure, Woxsen University offers new-age, disruptive programs in the fields of Business, Technology, Arts & Design, Architecture, Law, and Liberal Arts & Humanities. Woxsen also houses Asia’s largest Sports Infrastructure, spread over 60 acres. With 175 Global Partner Universities and a strong industry connect, Woxsen is recognized as one of the top universities for Academic Excellence and Global Edge. Woxsen has also secured the QS Business Masters World Ranking 2025, Rank #9 All India, Top 100 B-Schools by Times B-School Ranking 2025, Rank #6, Asia Pacific, Bloomberg Best B-School, and features in India’s Best B-Schools beyond IIMs by Dalal Street Investment Journal 2025, in 4th consecutive year. Woxsen is ranked as one of the Top Professional Colleges in India by Outlook I-CARE for its undergraduate programs, securing All India Rank 12 among the Top 130 BBA Private Institutes, All India Rank 20 among the Top 160 B.Tech Private Institutes, All India Rank 3 among the Top 25 Design Private Institutes, and All India Rank 3 among the Top 30 B. Arch Private Institutes.

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