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Medanta and Fabindia launch Women’s Day health awareness drive
Collaboration kicks off with ‘The Way She Thinks’ event and Pink Rooms in stores.
MUMBAI: This Women’s Day, Medanta and Fabindia didn’t just light a pink ribbon, they turned awareness into a fitting room reality check. Medanta – The Medicity Gurugram and Fabindia Ltd. have joined forces for International Women’s Day 2026 with a health awareness initiative that puts breast cancer screening front and centre. The programme began with a special event titled “The Way She Thinks” at Fabindia’s Experience Centre in Vasant Kunj, where Dr Kanchan Kaur, senior director, Breast Cancer at Medanta Gurugram, spoke about the critical importance of early detection.
Dr Kaur emphasised, “Regular screening and self-checks for breast cancer are vital because early detection greatly improves treatment outcomes and survival rates. In resource-constrained countries like India, self-breast examination is an important tool to pick up breast cancers at an earlier stage.”
Visitors to Fabindia’s Vasant Kunj centre this week receive an Awareness Card with a QR code linking to a doctor-led video on breast cancer. The outreach will extend to Fabindia’s artisan communities at the grassroots level, aiming to bridge knowledge gaps and foster informed health decisions.
A Fabindia spokesperson said, “Behind every garment is a woman with a story, a family, and a future. With this partnership, we are extending a hand of care to our customers, artisans and employees.” Medanta will become a Shared Value Community partner for Fabfamily members, allowing them to redeem Fabcoins for Medanta services. The collaboration will later expand to awareness around prostate cancer, oral cancer and overall wellbeing.
Activations will roll out across Fabindia stores in Delhi-NCR, Lucknow and Patna, featuring dedicated “Pink Rooms” specially designed trial rooms stocked with easy-to-understand breast cancer awareness tips, encouraging women to reflect on their health during routine shopping.
In a country where breast cancer accounts for one in four cancers among women, this initiative quietly shifts the dial: turning a day of celebration into 365 days of conversation, one QR code and one fitting-room reminder at a time.
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Tessolve lands a semiconductor veteran to drive its next big push
Ravi Kumar Chirugudu, who started his career at ISRO and has spent 35 years building chips and companies, joins the Bengaluru-based firm as president and chief operating officer
BENGALURU: Tessolve has never been shy about its ambitions. The Bengaluru-based engineering services firm already counts 18 of the world’s top 20 semiconductor companies among its clients, employs more than 3,500 engineers across 12 countries, and last year pocketed a $150m investment from TPG. Now it has hired the executive it believes can turn those assets into something bigger. Ravi Kumar Chirugudu, a 35-year semiconductor veteran who once built satellite payloads for ISRO and has since scaled engineering organisations across three continents, joins as president and chief operating officer, effective immediately.
THE MAN AND THE MANDATE
The appointment is, by any measure, a serious hire. Ravi Kumar Chirugudu comes to Tessolve after senior leadership stints at HCL Technologies, Altran and Wipro, where he managed large profit-and-loss portfolios and oversaw cross-regional teams. Over the course of his career, he has been instrumental in bringing more than 1,000 new products to market across the high-tech, energy and manufacturing verticals. Before the private sector claimed him, he began his working life as a scientist at the Indian Space Research Organisation, contributing to research and development in charge-coupled device technology and satellite payloads, a foundation that shaped everything that followed.
In his new role, he will lead Tessolve’s global growth strategy: expanding its engineering capabilities, deepening customer relationships and accelerating innovation across semiconductor and high-performance computing domains. The brief is broad, but the context is specific. Tessolve operates in the $550 billion global semiconductor market, and its recent moves, the acquisition of Germany’s Dream Chip Technologies and the TPG funding round, have sharpened both its reach and its expectations.
Srini Chinamilli, co-founder and chief executive of Tessolve, is characteristically direct about why Ravi Kumar Chirugudu was the choice:
“As we scale our global semiconductor and system engineering capabilities, Ravi’s appointment marks an important step forward. As global semiconductor demand continues to accelerate across industries, it is creating significant opportunities across the semiconductor lifecycle, from design, packaging, validation and systems integration. Ravi’s deep knowledge and leadership in this ecosystem brings the right mix of industry expertise, customer connect and execution capability, which will play a key role in strengthening our position as a trusted global engineering partner and reinforcing our market leadership.”
THE NEW ARRIVAL SPEAKS
Ravi Kumar Chirugudu, for his part, frames the move in terms of timing and culture, two factors that veteran executives tend to weigh as heavily as title or compensation:
“I am happy to join Tessolve at a time when the industry is rapidly evolving towards more complex, AI-driven systems. What stands out to me is its strong people-first culture and its commitment to bringing value to its customers. The strength of its global team, combined with its deep expertise in semiconductor innovation and next-generation product engineering, creates a solid foundation to build differentiated, scalable solutions. I look forward to working closely with the team to drive strategic growth and strengthen its role in shaping the global semiconductor ecosystem.”
The reference to AI-driven systems is not incidental. The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a structural reshaping, driven by the insatiable compute demands of artificial intelligence. For engineering services firms like Tessolve, which offers end-to-end capabilities from silicon design to packaged parts and invests in high-performance computing, high-speed interfaces, photonics and 5G, the moment is both an opportunity and a test. The company says it is well positioned to capture the next wave of industry growth. Ravi Kumar Chirugudu is now the person who has to prove it.
He came in from outer space, literally, and spent three decades learning how the semiconductor industry works from the inside out. Now Tessolve is betting that accumulated knowledge can help it cross the next frontier. In the $550 billion global chip market, the gap between ambition and execution is measured in engineering hours and leadership quality. Tessolve has just gone shopping for both.
