Maanya, a Bengaluru-based 11th grader, grew up in Texas watching her mother take up pottery after quitting her corporate job in 2006.

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While she started pottery in their garage as a way of de-stressing, she soon became skilled in it, and a full-blown venture was born.

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She recounts, “I watched her journey and how she evolved from being a woman who quit her job to become confident enough to start afresh.”

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Maanya recounts that her mother’s zeal to be independent inspired her. “Since then, I have been drawn towards women’s empowerment,” she says.

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The family moved back to India when Maanya was 10, and she began seeing many more instances of how women who were not financially rooted were often oppressed.

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This was the start of the idea of Incuba-Naari —a platform that formally took shape in 2020.

She began approaching Indian women who owned small businesses on the internet, with the intent to help them.

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Following winning a grant of $8000 from the MYP (Middle Years Programme) Innovators’ in July 2022, Maanya organised her first mentorship programme that September.

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