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Mindshare India celebrates global ‘Mindshare Day’
MUMBAI: Dedicated at celebrating Mindshare’s tenets of speed, provocation & teamwork and everything that Mindshare globally stands for, Mindshare’ global community celebrates Mindshare Day today, January 13th 2016. Institutionalized three years ago, Mindshare Day was conceptualized with the intention of bringing everyone within the Mindshare team together to celebrate the diversity of their talent, skill sets and great ideas. Mindshare Day is that one-day in the year that commemorates Mindshare holistically.
Commenting on this, Mindshare – South Asia CEO Prasanth Kumar said, “Mindshare Day is the opportunity for all at Mindshare to connect with the entire network. It is our vision to help clients grow their business and profitability through Adaptive Marketing, provocative ideas and new areas of engagement, which we believe can only be achieved through exceptionally driven and skilled talent. We’ve had a phenomenal 2015 and we chose to leverage this special day to celebrate as well as retrospect and give back to society through our initiative with the NGOs. We look forward to raising the bar and collectively motivating ourselves for an even better 2016.”
With a focus on what Mindshare can do globally to make the world a better place through both media experience and helping social causes in every country, Mindshare India decided to open new avenues for under-privileged children. The celebrations with the children from several NGOs took place across all the India offices, where the employees took time out to engage with them through a T-shirt painting activity. These T-shirts were later auctioned off to the employees in order to raise funds for NGOs such as Kalyandeep (Mumbai), Jhanan Mandira (Bengaluru), New Hope & New Life Rest (Chennai) and Literacy India in (Gurgaon).
With the belief in ‘Talent that attracts Talent’, Mindshare India makes great efforts to attract exceptional talent, which has positively impacted their business tremendously. Mindshare strongly believes that to drive change one needs to infuse fresh talent from diverse backgrounds. They also believe in rotating people across jobs to bring in a fresh perspective. The past year has seen remarkable strengthening of teams across verticals with diversified skills. Sharpening talent to create new opportunities and face new challenges is the Agency’s topmost priority, which is evident in the investments they make in the very best training and development team with world-class programmes from Mindshare Global, GroupM Worldwide, as well as a host of domain experts from India and South Asia.
The Mindshare network connects everyone together creating a platform for the free flow of ideas and path breaking work from which all can learn and leverage. 2015 was a landmark year for Mindshare India – winning an impressive array of over 175 awards, organizing the first-of-its-kind Content Day for HUL thereby paving the way for several other clients globally and talent management.
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Maharashtra panel orders Lodha to refund Rs 5 crore to homebuyers
Consumer court flags unfair practices in long-running property dispute case
MUMBAI: In a sharp rebuke to one of India’s biggest real estate players, the Maharashtra State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has directed Macrotech Developers to refund nearly Rs 5 crore to a senior citizen couple, Uttam and Anindita Chatterjee. The ruling, delivered on March 13, 2026, calls out the developer for “deficiency in service” and “unfair trade practices”, bringing closure to a dispute that has stretched over a decade.
The case traces back to 2015, when the couple booked a 3-BHK flat at World Towers in Lower Parel for Rs 12.22 crore, with possession promised within a year. What followed was a series of changes that complicated matters. After deciding to exit the project, they were persuaded to shift to a 4-BHK in another development priced at Rs 8 crore, with delivery scheduled for 2018. However, within months, the price was allegedly increased to Rs 10 crore. After demonetisation reshaped the market, similar flats were reportedly being offered at lower prices, but the couple were not given the benefit.
Despite paying over Rs 2.83 crore, the couple neither received possession nor clarity. Instead, in 2018, the developer unilaterally cancelled the booking, retained part of the amount as earnest money, and argued that the buyers were investors rather than consumers. The commission rejected this claim, observing that casual references to “investment” do not take away consumer rights when the purchase intent is residential.
The bench also held that the developer could not penalise buyers for payment delays while failing to meet its own delivery commitments. It noted the lack of formal documentation for revised terms and termed the prolonged retention of funds without delivering a home as exploitative.
As part of its order, the commission directed the developer to refund Rs 2.83 crore paid by the couple, along with interest at 10 per cent per annum, amounting to around Rs 2.12 crore. In addition, Rs 1 lakh has been awarded for mental agony and Rs 50,000 towards litigation costs, taking the total payout to over Rs 5 crore. The developer has been asked to comply within two months.
For now, the ruling serves as a reminder that in real estate, shifting terms and delayed promises can carry a significant cost.
