Aekta Kapoor is the founder and chief editor of eShe, a media platform launched in 2017 to amplify women’s voices and stories of our shared humanity. She launched the peacebuilding initiative South Asia Union in 2021 to empower women leaders to further the cause of peace in South Asia. She is an award-winning editor who previously worked with fashion publications such as Marie Claire India, Harper’s Bazaar Bride, and Fashion101, India’s only multilingual fashion website.
Aekta and her husband Ullekh NP are the subject of the Amazon Prime docu-drama ‘An Unsuitable Girl’, produced by Karan Johar and Somen Mishra, and directed by National Award-winning filmmaker Hardik Mehta. It is the first episode in the award-winning web series Love Storiyaan (2024).
Aekta holds a Master’s in Media, Ethics and Social Change from University of Sussex, UK, and a Bachelor’s in English Literature from University of Delhi, India. As a journalist, her reports on social trends, women’s issues, and the business of luxury have appeared in The Economic Times, Money Control, OPEN magazine, The Hindu, Mint Lounge, News18, Newslaundry, Voice of Fashion, and CNBCTV18, among others. She has given guest lectures at IIM Ahmedabad and several media and fashion colleges in Delhi, Jaipur and Bhopal.
Aekta was a mentor for UN Women’s Industry Disruptor 2020 in India and Europe and for the UNDP Investor Consortium for Women Entrepreneurs 2020 in India. She has authored a spiritual memoir 100 Paths: A Woman’s Search for God in the City (2017) and edited an anthology of fiction Everything Changed After That: 25 Women, 25 Stories (2021).
Certified in hypnotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming and pranic healing, she facilitates personal-growth sessions and conducts guided group meditations under eShe’s trademarked workshops Shine Your Light.
She is based in New Delhi, and spends her time between Kannur, Toronto and San Jose. Email: aekta@eshe.in
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