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South Korea deepens its ties with India through Asia Model Festival 2022

Face of India 2022 grand finale held in Pune

PUNE, India, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Asia has become a notable force within the fashion business. It is rightly said that if a proportion of the Asian customers increases by one unit, the proportion of Asian models also increases in the subsequent year. Asian models from round the world have reached top runways making an impact in this business known for its need for greater diversity and representation.

Internationally acclaimed Face of India (FOI) in association with the AMF, held its grand finale in Pune and crowned six winners from over 6000 entries received from various parts of the country. The property opens gates to endless opportunities for aspiring models and plays the role of a mentor in their fashion journey. The extensive judging panel included Mr. Badal Saboo (Chairman, Face of India), Rajiv Sonigara, (Co-Director, Sonigara Corp), and acclaimed Indian actors that included Sahil Shroff, Elakshi Gupta, Nikki Tamboli, Ayeesha Aiman, and Kabir Singh.

The whole world of fashion, glamour and culture was present as contestants all across India spiritedly walked the ramp to be the next Face of India 2022 with acclaimed designers such as Amin Farista (Collection Gandhian Fab), Niti Singhal (Collection Twee in One), Bhavini Parikh (Collection Bunko Junko), Ivodia London, Sumit Das Gupta, Ashok Maanay (Collection Suroor) and Siddhant Agrawal. The showcased collection was a story beautifully woven through sustainable fashion in different styles.

Alisha Chandrakar from Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, Vedant Mahewar from Nanded, Maharashtra, Ravi Naval from Mumbai, Niharika Joshi from Gujarat, Kriti Karmakar from Gauripur, Assam & Rohit Rana from Chalisgaon, Maharashtra were crowned as Face of India winners and qualified for the semi finale round of Face of Asia, 2022.

After an extensive round of voting across Asia through online and social platforms, Kriti Karmakar and Ravi Naval were declared winners to represent India and compete with the winners from other 26 Asian countries for the most coveted ‘Face of Asia‘ title which has a prize money of USD 100,000.

“India is a country with high potential for global development, and FOI has been a cultural exchange platform for India and South Korea. Let’s hope for good results when Indian winners come to Korea. I am positive AMF will serve as an opportunity for fashion and beauty industry exchange between the two countries,”  Yang Eui-Sik, Chairman, AMF, said.

“This year, AMF will be held at Uijeongbu In Gyeonggi Province, north of Seoul, South Korea which was also dubbed as a ‘military town’, as it hosted the U.S. military for seven decades. The ultimate goal of organizing such an event is to transform Uijeongbu into a fashion and beauty mecca in Asia,” said Uijeongbu Mayor Kim Dong-geun.

Uijeongbu Mayor Kim Dong-geun also plans to hold Uijeongbu’s flagship festivals like the ‘Hoeryong Cultural Festival‘ and ‘Haengbokro Festival‘ at the time of the upcoming AMF. He also announced that this year, the winners of the upcoming Face of Asia competition will become Uijeongbu’s promotional ambassadors.

Talking about the pageant Mr. Badal Saboo, Chairman, Face of India and Managing Director of Pune Fashion Week, shares, “It is unquestionably an immense joy to see top Indian models at this global stage. This pageant has surely brought the best of opportunities for aspiring models from all over the country. AMF is a great concept and an initiative that opens trade opportunities between 27 Asian countries including India. I have been associated with South Korea and, particularly AMF for a long time now, and it makes me proud to see how welcoming and open both the countries are with economic & socio development of the people of their country and, are taking bold steps towards investing into various sectors. I am happy to have successfully opened gates for the Fashion industry in both South Korea & India, and am hopeful to do so with the other sectors as well. India is at its peak of development and it is the right time for the  Korean companies to roll their eyes towards India especially in the R&D and technology sector.“

“I hope I am able to play the crucial role of being a fair representative for both the countries as both the countries have set a target to increase bilateral trade to $50 billion by 2030. It’s the right time and the perfect opportunity,” added, Mr. Badal Saboo, Chairman, Face of India and Managing Director of Pune Fashion Week.

Sonigara Corp. also teamed up with Face of India and launched ‘Codename Vogue‘, a new ultra-fashionable residential project near Aundh, on a 9+ acre land parcel. This property will add a fashionable sentiment to the city and claims to create a New Aundh in Pune.

Talking about the launch Mr. Rajiv Sonigara, Co-Director, Sonigara Corp said, “Sonigara Corp’s new property ‘Codename Vogue‘ is truly a unique project aimed at setting the highest levels when it comes to luxury and fashionable property offerings in Pune. We are enabling the community to make their style statement through their new address. This will create the next benchmark in fashionable living with cutting edge design and a trendiest lifestyle.“

“The glamour associated with the iconic Face of India is only matched by Sonigara’s standards for delivering unique homes and lifestyle experiences,” added Sachin Sonigara, Co-Director, Sonigara Corp. 

To promote the recognition of blogging as a profession, Bloggers Alliance Education Society (BAES) along with Pune Fashion Week chose to proudly announce the launch of the Pune Bloggers Alliance at the Face of India event and appointed Mr. Badal Saboo as the President of the BAES Maharashtra Chapter.

The event also recognized various achievers of India who have contributed tremendously in their fields with Face of India Achievers Awards 2022.

The following were the awardees: Dr. Amit Nagpal (President, BAES, India), Mr. Devendra Jaiswal (Co-Founder Story Mirror), Mr. Vikram Kotnis (Founder & Managing Director, Beyond Walls),  Mr. Aman Mehra (Director, Tribe Co-living), Mr. Abhishek Mishra (CEO of Dada Saheb Phalke International Film Festival (DPIFF)), Mr. Jimmy Mistry (Founder Della Leaders Club), Ms. Amita Deshpande (Founder, Recharkha, The EcoSocial Tribe), Mr. Raqesh Bapat & Ms. Isha Bapat (Earth Canvas & Co. – A confluence of art & sustainability), Mr. Ganesh Bakale (Director, Maha Ngo foundation), Ms. Dimple Vaghela & Ms. Laveena Keswani (Previous FOI Winners) and Mr. Lalit Dhanwe, a young force of figurative art from Karaha Studio who performed a live on-spot sculptor at the event. 

Below are the list of some of the eminent people of Pune who attended the event and added their charm at the occasion.

Actor, Zuber Khan, Actor Gaurav Deshmukh, Dr. Rajani Indulkar (Chairperson,Vasant Charitable Trust), Mr. Vikrant Indulkar, Mr. Kartik Kaushik (Schwarzkopf Professional), Ms. Megha Kaushik (Breguet, Swiss Luxury Watches), Mr. Kiran Bhagia (Swan Commodities), Mr. Ravi Thopte (Suvidha), Ms. Chahat Dalal (Mrs. Galaxy 2022-23), Mr. Paresh Pawar (Owner, Mayfield Estate), Mr. Shantanu Lele (Mayfield Estate), Mr. Rohan and Mrs. Pooja Kulkarni (Nagarkar Jewellers) Mr. Bhujang and Supriya Kale (Ashtekar Jewellers) Corporator. Mr. Yuvraj Renuse, Mr. Dheeraj Mutke , Mr, Shailesh Vedepatil (D’palace) Mr. Yuvraj Pimple (Vishal Multiplex), Mr. Yogesh Kalbhor, Mr. Pramod Kshirsagar, Mr. Herambh Shelke (2bhk Nightclub), Mr. Rakesh Yadav, Mr. Prateek Jadhav, Mr. Dinoday Sirnaik, Ms. Kavya Yadav, Ms. Trupti Pharande (Pharande Builders), Ms. Shruti Mahale, Ms. Meenakshi Mahangoankar, Mr. Akshay Pisal (Cafe Durga), Professor Ravindra Bharati, Dr Saksham and Ms. Komal Gupta (Serum Hospital), Mr. Sunny Sankla & Mrs. Prajal Sankla, Ms. Mudra Wedhikar, Mr. Nitin Mahendrekar & Mrs. Natasha Mahendrekar, Ms. Radhika Natu, Mr. Vikas Natu, Mr. Tarun Sachwani (Director, Della Resorts) and bloggers Shruti Dugad, Sofy DHillon, Paranosh Irani, Vini Shail Singh and Apporva Jayarajan.

Special thanks to Vida Heydari (VHC Art Gallery), Ms. Bhakti Sapke (ISAS Hair & Beauty), Dr Nida Khateeb (DentoKraft), Mr. Mohit Daswani, Mr. Saket Demapure, Mr. John Ravinder, Ms. Deepa Yadav, Ms. Sheetha Chacko & team, Mr. Karan Kapoor (Emcee), Mr. Soham Handekar & team, Mr. Angad Bedge & Mr. Nihar Kolapkar (Wit & Chai), Ms. Monica Mantri. Mr. Aditya Palwankar, Mr. Tanvir Khan & team, Mr. Nishant Ravade & team (Production Crew), Mr. Jitesh Patil (Pixel Photography), Ms. Vyomha Sharma (Nevanta Media), Ms. Vera & Ms. Rauleen (AMF, GLobal), Mr. Sachin & Abba Nikam (Muktai Mangal Kendra) and Dr. Karana Upadhyay & Students (National Institute of Event Management) for their contribution,  support & thank you to all well wishers of Mr. Badal Saboo.

It was an evening full of glamour, passion, competition and style.

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Asia Model Festival:

Asia Model Festival (AMF), sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Introducing Asian models and fashion/beauty-related industries to the world. AMF is also a global cultural content platform that introduces global brands and artists of Asia.     

Face Of India: 

In association with AMF, Pune Fashion Week (PFW) launched Face of India in 2014. It was the first time India participated in AMF, the largest and most prestigious platform in Asia’s fashion fraternity. Based on their talent and suitability, contestants are selected for the final rounds of the competition. Winners will represent India in the Asia New Star Model Contest 2022 at the AMF, October 12 – 16, 2022 in Uijeongbu.

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Reliance Digital Launches ‘Baaptaa’, a Father’s Day Campaign Celebrating the Many Expressions of Fatherhood

MUMBAI, India, June 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Reliance Digital has launched ‘Baaptaa’, a Father’s Day campaign to celebrate the many expressions of fatherhood. Built around a simple cultural observation, while “Maa ki Mamta” has long been a part of India’s collective vocabulary, there has never been a word that captures the distinct ways fathers express love, the campaign introduces ‘Baaptaa’ as a tribute to the many shades of fatherhood.

Conceptualised as an original music-led campaign, Baaptaa celebrates fathers not as idealised figures, but as they are experienced in everyday life, protective, dependable, emotional, quirky, practical, occasionally embarrassing, and always present. Through a relatable narrative, the campaign acknowledges the countless ways fathers care for their families, often through actions rather than words.

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At the heart of the campaign is an original music video told from a father’s perspective, capturing the different roles he plays across life’s moments and milestones. The film brings to life the humour, warmth and unspoken affection that characterise father-child relationships, while giving a name to a form of love that many recognise but few have articulated.

The campaign stems from a simple insight: while motherhood has often found expression through familiar phrases and popular references, the unique language of fatherhood has remained largely undefined. Baaptaa seeks to fill that gap by creating a term that reflects the everyday gestures, practical wisdom and quiet sacrifices that fathers make.

Father’s Day communication often leans into familiar emotional territory, but Reliance Digital’s campaign celebrates fathers in a way that feels more culturally authentic and relatable. The idea for ‘Baaptaa’ came from a simple observation — mother’s love has been immortalised in a number of heartfelt, emotional songs, there needed to be an anthem dedicated to dad’s love. And thus was born Baaptaa – a love language that is often awkward, practical, protective, humorous and deeply felt, even if rarely verbalised. It’s a celebration of fatherhood in all its wonderfully imperfect forms immortalized by a song that you won’t be able to stop humming.

Shop for the widest range of electronics at Reliance Digital and thank your father for his Baaptaa.

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Harper Collins Publishers India is Delighted to Announce the Recent Publication of ‘People We Love’ by Preeti Shenoy

NEW DELHI, June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — HarperCollins Publishers India is delighted to share the recent publication of People We Love by bestselling author Preeti Shenoy. At once tender and sharp, this collection of stories offers intimate, truthful and relatable portraits of the people we cherish, the ones we lose, and the people we become.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The people we love never truly leave our story…

In these tender yet piercing stories, Preeti Shenoy returns to some of her most beloved characters to reveal who they were before they appeared in her bestselling novels It’s All in the Planets and The One You Cannot Have.

Aniket, a coder, carries the weight of a longing for Trisha that he cannot bring himself to act on. Nidhi abandons her corporate life to teach pottery, only to discover that clay is far more forgiving than the people she loves. A quiz competition sparks an unlikely romance between Aman and Shruti, one that must withstand parental disapproval and class divides. And Anjali, a journalist, is so busy chasing stories that she almost misses the one unfolding in her own life.

Set against the pulse of contemporary India, People We Love explores the tug-of-war between duty and desire, family and freedom, who we are and who we dare to be. Intimate and deeply felt, these are stories about love that stays, leaves and almost slips away … love that quietly and irrevocably shapes the people we become.

Preeti Shenoy, author, says, “People We Love is a collection of three long stories, prequels to my bestsellers It’s All in the Planets and The One You Cannot Have. If you have read those books, you already know how these characters’ stories unfold. But what you don’t know yet is where it all began, the loves they carried, the choices they made, and the people they were before life shaped them into who you met on those pages. Writing these prequels felt like returning to a home I hadn’t realised I missed, and discovering rooms I had never been in before.”

Rashmi Menon, Associate Publisher – HarperCollins India, adds, “Preeti Shenoy has an extraordinary gift for finding the heartbeat of ordinary lives. People We Love is a warm, wise and deeply humane collection of short stories that reunites readers with favourite characters from her bestselling novels It’s All in the Planets and The One You Cannot Have, weaving them into fresh, deeply satisfying narratives. These characters feel like people you know, and their journeys will move, comfort and surprise you. This uplifting, thought–provoking collection reminds us why we turn to stories in the first place. We couldn’t be more excited to share it with our readers.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Preeti Shenoy is among the highest-selling authors in India. She was featured on the Forbes longlist of the most influential celebrities in India. Her books include When Love Came Calling, Wake Up Life, Is Calling, Life Is What You Make It, The Rule Breakers, A Hundred Little Flames, It’s All in the Planets, Why We Love the Way We Do, The Secret Wish List, The One You Cannot Have and many others. Her work has been translated into many Indian languages. Preeti is also a motivational speaker, an avid fitness enthusiast, and an artist specializing in portraiture and illustrated journalling. Preeti lives in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

ABOUT HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INDIA

At HarperCollins Publishers India, we believe in telling the best stories and ensuring they reach the widest readership. We publish around 250 new books every year across 10 imprints, adding to a diverse catalogue of more than 3,000 titles in print and digital formats, with an array of genres and voices that ensure there is a book for every reader. Our authors have won some of the most prestigious literary awards, and we are proud to publish many acclaimed writers, alongside new and emerging voices shaping contemporary literature. We are also the publishers of The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, winner of the Booker Prize 2008, and Girl in White Cotton by Avni Doshi, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2020, and HarperCollins India itself has been awarded “Publisher of the Year” several times. In addition, we represent some of the finest global publishers such as Harvard University Press, Lonely Planet, Oneworld, Nosy Crow, Usborne, and National Geographic Children, bringing Indian readers access to world-class books and ideas. We are also proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work for two consecutive years, a recognition of our culture, people, and values that make HarperCollins India a truly inspiring workplace. 

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Nandini Tripathi, Manager – Marketing (Commercial)

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Fulfilling PM Modi’s Dream of Atmanirbhar Bharat: India’s AI Writing Startup Kreativespace Incubated at IIT Kharagpur

  1. Kreativespace, an Indian AI-powered writing platform founded by Vinet Kakadea, has been incubated at IIT Kharagpur and recognized by SVNIT University, Ministry of Education under Bodhan AI Conclave also through the NVIDIA Inception Program, AWS Startup Program, and DPIIT under Startup India.
  2. The platform unifies 8 AI-powered writing tools, along with AI Humanizer and Message AI feature being the latest addition into a single ecosystem, so you can generate and refine content all in one place.
  3. The company reports more than 50,000+ signed-up users, 75,000+ anonymous users, and roughly 100,000 monthly website visitors, positioning itself as the only Indian company operating at scale in the global AI writing market.

SURAT, India, June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Kreativespace, an AI-powered writing platform, is building out its position as the only homegrown alternative in a market long dominated by international tools such as Grammarly and QuillBot. Founded by Vinet Kakadea and incubated at IIT Kharagpur, the company has aligned its growth with the broader push behind Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Atmanirbhar Bharat (Self-Reliant India) initiative, which encourages indigenous technology development capable of competing on a global scale.

Kreativespace Incubated at IIT Kharagpur

As AI adoption accelerates across India’s education, research, and enterprise sectors, Kreativespace is among a small group of Indian startups building writing technology designed to compete directly with established international platforms.

Kreativespace’s progress has been recognized by several institutions central to India’s startup and technology ecosystem. The company has been incubated at IIT Kharagpur, selected under SSIP 2.0 through SVNIT University, and chosen by the Ministry of Education to present its work at the Bodhan AI Conclave. It has also been accepted into the NVIDIA Inception Program and the AWS Startup Program, and holds DPIIT recognition under the Startup India initiative.

Where many writing-tool users rely on separate subscriptions for content generation to refinement for grammar correction, paraphrasing, plagiarism checking, citation generation, and editing, Kreativespace brings these functions into a single platform as a super-app for AI writing tools. The company says its approach centers on affordability and accessibility alongside performance, aiming to make advanced AI writing assistance available to a wider range of users regardless of geography or budget.

The idea for Kreativespace took shape while founder Vinet Kakadea was studying at New York University and Marymount University in the United States, where he experienced firsthand how students, researchers, and professionals often need multiple paid subscriptions to cover writing-related tasks. That fragmented experience led him to build a super-app offering each of these capabilities together, at a more accessible price point.

Kreativespace combines 8 AI-powered writing tools with AI Humanizer and Message AI feature being the latest addition, allowing users to generate, rewrite, refine, and humanize content without moving between separate platforms. The product is available via web platform, mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play, browser extensions for Chrome, Mozilla, and Edge, and a Google Docs add-on.

Vinet Kakadea, Founder of Kreativespace, said, “Kreativespace’s vision is to digitalize the entire Indian education ecosystem to support PM Modi’s Atmanirbhar Bharat scheme.”

About Kreativespace

Kreativespace with the Motto of Making Writing Accessible for Everyone: Kreativespace is an AI-powered writing platform built to make AI writing tools accessible, affordable, and effective for students, researchers, educators, professionals, content creators, startups, and enterprises. Founded by Vinet Kakadea, the company is incubated at IIT Kharagpur and has been recognized by AWS Startup Program, the NVIDIA Inception Program, and DPIIT under Startup India. For more information, visit kreativespace.com.

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