It was when she got fired from her job that Kopal Khanna decided that her dream of starting a story-sharing platform had to be realised. She had been working with a non-profit, which fulfilled her ambition of doing good work, but her creative side was suffering. "I had had this idea for a long time, but you know, we all think of things like'will it earn me enough money?’ or'will it even work?’ Though I pursued history in college and then worked in the non-profit sector, I had always been a writer, so storytelling was important to me," says the 26-year-old.

Last year, Khanna along with her friends, Ali Husen and Utkarsh Mehrotra, started Tape A Tale, which began as an online platform, where people submitted videos of themselves telling tales from their lives. "It could be an event or story from your life that you want to talk about. They are all personal narratives," says Khanna.

Kopal Khanna