Infiheal Shares the Stage with Neena Gupta and More at IMC Ladies Wing's IMPACT 2026
It's not every day you share a stage with Neena Gupta, Shankar Mahadevan, Neeta Lulla, Ashu Suyash, Flying Officer Itisshha Chaauhan, and Dipika Singh. Infiheal's Founder and CEO, Srishti Srivastava, took the stage at IMPACT 2026, the IMC Ladies Wing's flagship conclave celebrating 60 years of Nari Shakti, this year themed Evolve to Excel. It was a panel that was as much about the world women have already built as it is about the one they continue to define.
Six Decades of Legacy in One Room
The Ladies' Wing of the IMC Chamber of Commerce and Industry was inaugurated in 1966 by Lady Dhanwanthi Rama Rau, an eminent social worker, and has since grown into the oldest and most successful women's business organisation in India, inspiring a wave of similar groups across the country. Today, it remains a thriving forum of over 2,000 women members spanning entrepreneurs, professionals, corporate leaders, academicians, bankers, journalists, artists, and social activists. IMPACT 2026 marked 60 years of that legacy, and the room reflected it: six decades of work, carried by women who have each lived that legacy in their own deeply personal way.
Four Women, Four Worlds, One Common Ground
Four women from four completely different worlds sat on that stage, and yet the moment the conversation moved past introductions, the common ground was immediate and unmistakable. What it looked like in that room was a kind of candidness that doesn't come rehearsed, the kind that surfaces when women who have genuinely been through the grind start talking to each other without the usual filters: about the years of navigating spaces that weren't built for them, and the cost of showing up consistently, year after year, regardless of who was watching.
Actress and director Neena Gupta spoke about her journey with a quiet groundedness that only comes from having truly lived through something, the kind of story that doesn't need embellishment because the honesty in it does all the work. There was something deeply resonant in the way she talked about building a body of work entirely on her own terms and in her own time, a reminder that the most enduring kind of courage isn't always loud or linear. Sometimes it just looks like staying the course, quietly, for decades.
A Conversation That Didn't Feel Like It Ended
As Shankar Mahadevan brought the evening to a close, a warmth settled over the entire room, the kind of ending that doesn't actually feel like one. For Srishti, being part of that conversation, alongside women who have built careers in cinema, fashion, finance, the armed forces, and public life, reinforced something Infiheal holds close to its own mission: that resilience rarely looks the way it's portrayed, and the real work of showing up consistently is often the quietest, least celebrated part of any journey.
Gratitude for Sixty Years of Rooms Worth Being In
Infiheal remains genuinely inspired by, and grateful to, the IMC Ladies Wing for sixty years of creating rooms worth being in, and for continuing to do exactly that: empowering women as they keep shining, on their own terms, in their own time.
