Cancelled Plans
Cancelled Plans
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans,” is a John Lennon quote that Mallika Reddy swears by. She’s the Founder and Creative Director of Cancelled Plans, a sustainable streetwear fashion brand that makes its products from industrial waste. The brand saw some difficult times in the past couple of years and had taken a bit of a hiatus. It is now coming back as a new company – bui…Social links:
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Seema Sajdeh: You do you
On the season finale of the Cancelled Plans podcast, Mallika catches up with fashion designer and stylist Seema Sajdeh. They chat about how Seema feels like her whole life is the product of cancelled plans, how she got into fashion, her shift from bridal fashion to street wear and athleisure, the w…
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Mamata Venkat Subramanyam: Shining your inner light
Today, on the Cancelled Plans podcast, Mallika speaks to meditation trainer, writer and content creator Mamata Venkat Subramanyam about struggling with her decision of dropping pre-med, how the combination of meditation practice and mental health work became an integral part of her life, and how sh…
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Rijul Ray: Coming of stage
Today, on the Cancelled Plans podcast, actor and voice over artist Rijul Ray joins Mallika to speak about the big shift from studying economics to a career in the performing arts, his parents coming to terms with this decision, his big film and OTT debuts this year, what he loves about the differen…
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Aisha Rao: Trusting your instincts
On today’s episode of the Cancelled Plans podcast, Mallika chats with fashion designer Aisha Rao, the founder & creative director of her self-titled label. They talk about their collaborative project, Aisha’s move from law to fashion, how living in Barcelona influenced her, and the balance between …
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Pranati Khanna (Peekay): Rewriting the rulebook
This week, on the Cancelled Plans podcast, Mallika speaks to Pranati Khanna aka Peekay, an indie musician and artist from Hyderabad. She is also the founder and creative director of the marketing and design firm The Whole Shebang. Pranati opens up about how her dream of studying art at Parsons beca…
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Joseph Radhik: Making time for life
This week, Mallika is joined by Joseph Radhik, the award-winning photographer, educator, and creative head of Stories by Joseph Radhik, who talks about his journey from engineering to design to FMCG to wedding photography, his biggest support systems, how the pandemic changed his perspective on wor…
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Reha Sukheja: Going easy with yourself
On this episode of the Cancelled Plans podcast, Mallika talks to model and actor Reha Sukheja. Reha narrates the story of how she went from being a nerdy economics student to 1st runner up at the 2010 Miss Universe India pageant, speaks about her evolving relationship with her mother, looking inwar…
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Sonali Pamnani Jabakh: Living the slow life
Mallika’s guest on this week’s episode of the Cancelled Plans podcast is Sonali Pamnani Jabakh, founder of The Meraki Project, which began as a clothing label, and is now a platform dedicated to empowering women through social media content, a digital magazine, and a feminist club. They chat about …
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Jayant Ramanand: DeFi-ing your own plans
On this week’s episode of the Cancelled Plans podcast, Mallika is joined by Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency & decentralized finance (DeFi) consultant, researcher and educator Jayant Ramanand, who talks about his relationship with education to becoming an educator himself, and his distressing experie…
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Elton Fernandez: Living in the grayscale
This week, on the Cancelled Plans podcast, beauty professional and content creator Elton Fernandez speaks to Mallika about his stints in the corporate world, his difficult coming out process, leaving home and moving to Bombay at 23, navigating queer politics while conceptualising The Non-Binary Vir…
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