Founder Of Eclectic Northeast, Tanushree Hazarika Is Addicted To Change

“I am addicted to change,” says Tanushree Hazarika, who runs the English magazine Eclectic Northeast, which covers all eight states in the region and has a circulation of 62000 and a readership of over 300,000. A business management graduate from Boston University, Hazarika previously worked for MNCs like Fidelity and Morgan Stanley in the US and then returned to Guwahati in 2007 to set up the magazine, contribute to her family's business and boost Northeast India's prominence on the national stage.

Meet Tanushree Hazarika, Founder of Eclectic Northeast

Hazarika believes there is an urgent need to bring Northeast India on par with the rest of the country and her effort is trying to achieve that vision. “Hopefully, this contributes in a small way to making it in India.” She believes that entrepreneurs who are associated with the food and travel industries can actually take advantage of digital media.

She has launched many other supporting ventures, like the Brahmaputra Valley Film Festival and Eclectic Ananta Speaker Series, to put the spotlight on the stories of the North East.  For her, leading newsrooms is about giving space to people’s ideas and “not micromanaging.” Something she learned from her mentor, Keith Berwick. The Emmy Award-winning broadcaster is the founding executive director of The Aspen Institute, of which Hazarika is a member. She picks two other leaders from the North East - Hekani Jakhalu, Director of YouthNet, and Hasina Kharbhih, founder of Impulse NGO Network—as the young entrepreneurs to watch out for in the industry.

While speaking on harnessing small enterprises and scaling them up at SheThePeople and Facebook’s nationwide ‘Boost Your Business’ programme in Guwahati, she said, If we have more platforms, more opportunities to interact, we keep inviting more people and having interactions, and in a couple of years the rate of growth will be faster, she added.

Tanushree also started Tattva Creations in 2010, which, provides brand and communication solutions to corporations and organisations. She is the recipient of the Young Communicator Award from the Symbiosis Institute in 2010 and the Outstanding Woman Achiever Award from FLO (the ladies wing of FICCI) in 2013. She is also a Fellow of the Fifth Class of the India Leadership Initiative and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.