Updated: Mar 30, 2021 08:17:00 AM IST
Vikaas Gutgutia, Founder & MD at Ferns N Petals and FNP Media and Pawan Gadia, CEO, Retail and Online at Ferns N Petals India, UAE & Singapore at Ferns n Petals Farms in New Delhi.
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Bengaluru, April 2020. Anurag Kishore was in a big fix. A year ago, the software engineer went against the wishes of his parents to marry a girl from another community. “There were less bouquets and more brickbats,” Kishore smiles, recalling his austere marriage ceremony in Mumbai. April 15 his first anniversary was supposed to be a grand day. The lockdown, though, gate-crashed the plans. No guests, no celebration, no party. Not even flowers. Meghna, his wife, eventually got sucked into her office work on a busy Wednesday. Kishore too got engrossed in calls with clients. Around noon, Meghna’s iPhone beeped. There was a congratulatory video message from one of her favourite TV celebs. “I couldn’t believe this,” she recalls. “