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“In order to aspire to become a leader, one needs to be informed and inspired.”
While seeking inspiration to get going in tough times, we often find ourselves scrolling endlessly on various social media platforms. Content lacking quality is lying all over these platforms making it difficult to find something worth your time.
Are you looking forward to something inspiring and don’t know where to find it? Sure, we could be of some help! We have curated a list of 10 Indian Influencers sending crisp, insightful and uplifting messages through their social media and setting a tone of empathy and enlightenment.
Do not confuse these with a bunch of Indian fashion influencers promoting Indian fashion and style. These Indian influencers not only have a deep understanding of the Indian culture, market trends, and various issues women face in their day-to-day life; they have experienced some of them and come out stronger.
Social media gives you a platform to share your thoughts, a right to advocate for your rights and create awareness, and most importantly, inspire. These top 10 Indian Women Influencers are breaking the stereotypes about mental health, parenting, and fighting the conventional understanding of beauty, fatphobia and body color by posting natural, and inspiring images.
Sakshi Sindwani
A fashion content creator and body positivity influencer with 547K followers on Instagram and 96.7K subscribers on YouTube. Sakshi noticed a gap, lack of beauty and fashion guides for curvy and oversized women. She initiated a channel to bridge the gap and eventually people started noticing her.
Her mission to redefine conventional beauty standards and revolution on inclusivity in media for plus-size women bagged her collaborations with designers like Manish Malhotra, Masaba, etc. With her mantra – “Fashion and beauty are for all”, she is inspiring Indian masses to accept their bodies and color, look beyond and find comfort in themselves.
Masoom Minawala
An entrepreneur, investor, and a fashion content creator for over a decade now, she started before the term influencer was coined. She is considered as the influencer’s influencer, with 1.3M followers on Instagram. Someone who’s walked the red carpet at Paris Fashion week and collaborated with various global brands like BMV, Samsung, Louis Vuitton, etc. her area of interest being ethnic Indian wear.
Unusual for a young fashion influencer she was seen talking about pregnancy, stretch marks and post-partum body changes in last few months inspiring women to not shy away with this natural process, instead come forward and talk about it.
Ruhee Dosani
From working full-time in a finance job to being a digital content creator Ruhee has come a long way in her journey as an inspiring influencer. She gained popularity when her videos went viral during the pandemic. Her followers liked everything about her, her “Punjabi Kudi” look, her black hat, and dancing videos with her “We Desi” friends.
With 2.3M followers to date, she has collaborated with popular Indian actors like Diljit Dosanjh, Priyanka Chopra, Kartik Aryan, Jhanvi Kapoor, etc. in videos graciously keeping her own character, creative expression, and uniqueness. She was seen taking the negative comments and trolls in a comic and funny manner, inspiring her to stay positive in any situation.
Prajakta Koli
Known for her YouTube channel MostlySane, she gained popularity with her comic videos full of humor and insights. With 7.7M followers on Instagram, Prajakta’s journey was eventful and she was featured in various magazines like BW Business World, Forbes, Outlook, etc.
She launched her campaign #iPledgeToBeMe addressing issues like mental health, body shaming, and well-being. She attended various campaigns for girls’ education, interviewed girls in different countries about their opportunities for education, and even discussed them with Michelle Obama on a special episode of Creators For Change.
Namrata Purohit
A health and fitness enthusiast, sports nutritionist, author, entrepreneur, and the youngest Stott Pilates instructor; Namrata is a celebrity trainer with 433K followers on Instagram. She co-founded The Pilates Studio in Mumbai with her father at the age of 16.
Her journey in the fitness field started with a fall. A bad fall from a horse resulted in a severe knee injury and she started taking courses and trying various exercises after her surgery. That’s when Pilates came to her rescue.
Making the fall her new beginning, she inspires the Indian youth by bringing new forms of exercises and yoga forms customizing and providing training to her clients to make their fall worth a while.
Aashna Bhagwani
A content creator and influencer talking about issues like body-positivity, self-love, and body confidence through her social media with 1.78K subscribers on her YouTube channel. She has made it to Cosmopolitan and Hindustan Times as a body positivity icon in India.
Her posts on Instagram are bold and obesity obsessed, she shares the power to be herself and feel confident in her body. Inspiring women with her mantra – “Every Body Matters”. Her styling videos, beauty, and makeup tips come in handy with her videos and she inspires plus-size women to feel ok about their size.
Bani Judge
Known as VJ Bani or Bani J, she is a fitness model, storyteller, and a former Indian actress. Her followers have crossed 1.4M over the past few months. Her podcast “Bare by Bani J” became very popular in 2019, and there on she gained popularity as an actress as a part of the series “Four more shots please”.
She was constantly criticized for her physique and lifestyle, leaving no stone unturned she focused on her fitness regime, and her workout videos and posts were inspiring for women of all ages.
Natasha Diddee
A Pune-based chef, and successful foodgrammar (who doesn’t have a gut), that’s what she says!
Her story is inspiring and her recipes are worth drooling. She eats to fill her soul because she doesn’t have a stomach. That’s right! She was diagnosed with a tumor eight years back and she was a foodie. After realizing that there was no solution except total gastrectomy, she got it operated on and was left with no stomach. It saved her life but changed it completely.
She started finding recipes that are healthy and can satisfy her soul. Her recipes became popular and so does she. Today she is a leading foodgrammer (in the name of The GutlessFoodie).
Kusha Kapila
A digital creator with 3.2M followers on Instagram, famous for her fictional characters, comic videos, and youth-centric videos (South Delhi Girls). Her videos on South Delhi girls made her popular with a lot of controversies. She inspires with a unique comic sense and her videos are insightful and funny.
Pankaj Bhadouria
A food traveler, TV host, Author, and India’s first Master Chef with 1.3M followers on Instagram. Her Instagram feed is full of videos of her delicious recipes and humor. She decided to transfer her knowledge through her own cookbook, and other books like Barbie – I Am a Chef and Chicken from My Kitchen.
She was also invited as a speaker at a number of events and the most popular of those were her Ted talks. She left her 16-year-old job to participate in Master Chef and that decision changed her life. She inspires you to take on new challenges, keep doing things persistently and follow your passion.
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