Even if you don’t know or follow Navya Naveli Nanda, you have an idea in your head of who she is. The word “proper” comes to mind. She’s young, privileged and always well put-together, nary a hair out of place. She’s easy-going, thoughtful, and always with her guardrails up.
You cannot blame her. Given her background—film legends Jaya and Amitabh Bachchan are her grandparents and actor-entrepreneur Abhishek Bachchan her uncle, mom Shweta Bachchan is a popular author-columnist, and brother Agastya is already one film old—Navya was destined for the limelight. But Navya is that nepo baby who chose boardrooms over the box office. For her, the stage was always ready, but her performance is elsewhere.
For a 27-year-old, she seems to have a schedule that would rival most CEOs’. A regular day in her life is spent between visiting her family’s agri-machinery factory, working on her women-focussed NGO, Project Naveli, catching up on her online MBA course, and recording her podcast, rightly named ‘What the Hell Navya?’. Because, seriously, what the hell? Simone Dhondy chats with the Gen Z-er about thriving at work, and how she finds time for fun.
