PIONEER | SEEMA
PLANT POWER! Lawyer, animal-welfare activist and
Instagram micro-influencer Ambika
Hiranandani has always known what
she wanted to be when she “grew up.”
Not merely in terms of her professional ambitions, but also in terms of what
she’s wanted to embody as a person. PRATIKA YASHASWI
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or instance, she corrects me when I refer to her as a vegan. “I prefer to use the term plant-based,” she says. “They’re both the same thing, but I’m plant-based with everything.” Hiranandani has been a vegan for over 10 years, draws inspiration from Eastern spiritual philosophy, and takes great pains to ensure that her possessions, cosmetics, clothes, and any other part of her life are plant-based as far as possible.
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