when the siliguri girl moved to delhi along with her family it opened two battlefields gender bias and cultural conflict fortunately she found a woman role model who gave her the nerve to face her the world hostile to womenwhen i was in class 9 i received an award from kiran bedi it was a fleeting moment with her but she filled me with the confidence of a lifetime then i went on to become the prime minister head girl of the school cabinet with the experience i developed a vision which groomed a leader within me at an early stage recollects archana surana founderdirector of arch college of design business that offers over a dozen undergraduate and postgraduate courses on jewellery fashion and interior designexplaining her source of creativity archana says during her childhood days she nurtured a fondness for rich textiles while pursuing a degree in delhi university she found her calling and took admission in fashion design at south delhi polytechnic but her entrepreneurship journey had to wait for a few yearsshe got married to rajeev a lawyer and shifted to jaipur a city rich with cultural heritage and indigenous crafts in a family where everybody was a professional to start an entrepreneurship journey was not easy i started off as faculty in a fashion design institute then joined another one where i started a jewellery design course a first in rajasthan and taught till i started my own in 2000 by then i had a deep understanding of building a culture of designled skill courses i had also done a course in contour design from de montfort university in the uk to gain a world view says archana at that time jaipur was known more for colourstone than jewellery design was limited to traditional craftsmanship archana says her journey as an entrepreneur tracks the growth of jaipur as a jewellery hubit was a humble beginning from two rooms of my residence i moved outside to bani park bapu nagar and other places as the number of students in fashion jewellery and interior design increased by 200304 i used to get a lot of students from several states today students from 30 states study here says archanaartistic sensitivity and intuition for exploring new trends not only rewarded her but also inspired her to dream big she wanted a bigger campus having all the infrastructure labs in one place thats how the 65000 sq ft malviya nagar campus came up in 2006 i had never taken a loan in life i grew the centres by putting in everything i earned but the big facility needed huge investments with a loan i completed the building in nine months says archanabut soon she sailed into rough weather after the deemed university status was taken away by the ugc putting in jeopardy her graduation certification programme thats when she tied up with pearson the largest awarding body in the uk for academic and vocational qualificationsbut archana feels that her