- The Face Behind the Faces: How Sayali Ganvir Is Redefining Beauty at 23
At 23, Nagpur-based makeup artist Sayali Ganvir is already moving between pageant backstages, bridal suites and editorial sets with a precision and instinct that belies her age. From her work with Femina Miss India and Perfect Miss of India to her fluency in the reel-driven language of modern beauty, Ganvir isn’t just applying makeup — she’s building a signature.
- The Discipline of Dust: How Sudhakar Kharmate Built a Cricketer Out of Nothing
From the dust of Enkul to the bright lights of Mumbai, Sudhakar Baburao Kharmate never had an academy, a coach on retainer, or a clipboard tracking his progress — just a tied ball, a tree, and four unyielding hours a day. Now, with the MPCL behind him and the IPL ahead, he speaks of selection not as a hope but as a certainty already written. This is the story of a milkman’s son who refused to stay out.
- Sixes in the Dust: The Improbable Legend of Vikas Sartape
Nominated for the IBC Excellence Awards 2026 There is a particular kind of fame that never needs a stadium. It is built instead on dust and dusk light, on the collective gasp of a crowd pressed against a boundary rope, on a name passed from one cricket season to the next until it becomes something …
- The Mhaswad Maestro: Three Decades of Vikas Sartape’s Fearless Cricket
There is a particular kind of stillness that falls over a maidan just before Vikas Sartape walks out to bat — the sense that something extraordinary is about to happen. Since 1996, from a twenty-ball century at Rajewadi to an unbeaten 115 studded with eighteen sixes at Walchandnagar, the Mhaswad-born hitter has turned grassroots tennis-ball cricket into his own private theatre.
- The Woman Who Refused to Choose: Mamta Sanjay Ulvekar’s Many Lives
At 47, Mamta Sanjay Ulvekar isn’t stepping into the spotlight to prove she can keep up — she’s stepping into it to show there’s no age at which a woman should stop becoming. From a disciplined career in IT to voice work, acting, and now the Mrs. India stage at IBC Belleza Luxe Diva 2026, her journey is a quiet rebellion against the idea that dreams come with an expiry date. Nominated for the IBC Excellence Awards 2026, she proves that reinvention isn’t reserved for the young — it’s simply reserved for the brave.
At 23, Nagpur-based makeup artist Sayali Ganvir is already moving between pageant backstages, bridal suites and editorial sets with a precision and instinct that belies her age. From her work with Femina Miss India and Perfect Miss of India to her fluency in the reel-driven language of modern beauty, Ganvir isn’t just applying makeup — she’s building a signature.
From the dust of Enkul to the bright lights of Mumbai, Sudhakar Baburao Kharmate never had an academy, a coach on retainer, or a clipboard tracking his progress — just a tied ball, a tree, and four unyielding hours a day. Now, with the MPCL behind him and the IPL ahead, he speaks of selection not as a hope but as a certainty already written. This is the story of a milkman’s son who refused to stay out.
Nominated for the IBC Excellence Awards 2026 There is a particular kind of fame that never needs a stadium. It is built instead on dust and dusk light, on the collective gasp of a crowd pressed against a boundary rope, on a name passed from one cricket season to the next until it becomes something …
There is a particular kind of stillness that falls over a maidan just before Vikas Sartape walks out to bat — the sense that something extraordinary is about to happen. Since 1996, from a twenty-ball century at Rajewadi to an unbeaten 115 studded with eighteen sixes at Walchandnagar, the Mhaswad-born hitter has turned grassroots tennis-ball cricket into his own private theatre.
At 47, Mamta Sanjay Ulvekar isn’t stepping into the spotlight to prove she can keep up — she’s stepping into it to show there’s no age at which a woman should stop becoming. From a disciplined career in IT to voice work, acting, and now the Mrs. India stage at IBC Belleza Luxe Diva 2026, her journey is a quiet rebellion against the idea that dreams come with an expiry date. Nominated for the IBC Excellence Awards 2026, she proves that reinvention isn’t reserved for the young — it’s simply reserved for the brave.