16/03/2026
This March, for Women’s Day month, we are doing something special at POE!
We are spotlighting women who did not wait for perfect conditions. Women who faced fear, doubt, and barriers, and still chose to build something meaningful.
This week’s spotlight is on Nidhi Goyal, the founder of Rising Flame.
Nidhi is a disability and gender rights activist, a public speaker, and the founder of a Mumbai-based organisation working to amplify the voices and leadership of women and youth with disabilities. Through Rising Flame, she has spent years advocating for dignity, inclusion, and rights for persons with disabilities across India and globally.
But her journey was not easy.
Nidhi lost her sight as a teenager. In a world that often questions the capability of people with disabilities, she went on to build an organisation that challenges exactly those assumptions.
In the video, she speaks candidly about something many founders quietly experience.
That starting an NGO is often not taken seriously as “entrepreneurship.” And as a visually impaired woman founder, the doubts and dismissals can multiply.
Yet she built Rising Flame anyway.
An organisation that is helping women with disabilities find leadership, voice, and space in a society that too often overlooks them.
At POE we talk a lot about technology, AI, and the future of business.
But progress is not only built by technology.
It is built by people who challenge systems.
People who redefine what leadership looks like.
People who create space where none existed before.
Stories like Nidhi’s remind us that entrepreneurship is not only about startups and valuations. Sometimes it is about courage, dignity, and changing the narrative for thousands of others.
This Women’s Day month, we are proud to spotlight women like her.
Because inspiration is also innovation.
And the future is shaped by those who refuse to accept the limits placed on them.
Which woman entrepreneur inspires you the most? Let us celebrate her.