Father, doodler, trivia buff, sports fanatic, lifelong student of marketing.
Alekhya Chakrabarty — a name that literally means portrait. This is the broadsheet of everything that portrait contains: the quizzes conducted on national stages, the podcasts recorded at midnight, the essays that bridge boardrooms and Sealdah Station, the doodles scribbled in the margins, and the relentless curiosity that connects it all.
Alekhya has conducted quizzes on stages across India — from the Times of India Quizzard semi-finals to corporate offsites to college fests with packed auditoriums. His approach to quizzing is what he calls "storytelling quizzing": questions aren't just questions, they're narratives. Each one is crafted to make you think, then surprise you, and — if it's done right — make you remember the answer forever.
The themes span the territory this entire broadsheet covers: brands and marketing, sports and pop culture, business and current affairs, history and science. The format is adaptable — from traditional buzzer-round quizzes to interactive audience-participation shows, from formal corporate events to the gleefully chaotic energy of a college crowd that's just discovered they don't know who invented the barcode.
"The best quiz question is one where the audience nods when they hear the answer — because it feels like something they should have known."— Alekhya Chakrabarty
Beyond live events, Alekhya creates weekly trivia sets and fact-a-day content that lives on this site (see Daily Trivia Shot above). The quiz archive is growing — and the plan is to make Portrait Mode the home for anyone who agrees with one simple thesis: knowing things is cool.
Interested in having a quiz at your event? Whether it's a corporate team-building day, a college cultural fest, or a private gathering that needs a dose of competitive intellectual joy — reach out. Custom themes, custom difficulty, guaranteed memorable.
Long-form conversations about brands, marketing, content, culture, and the people who shape these worlds. The podcast where curiosity meets candour — and where a chat about Nike's Jordan brand can veer into the philosophy of connection, and somehow it all makes sense.
- EP East India Marketing Co. — Content, Culture & Commerce ~45m
- EP Nike's Nikhil Pandit — On Connections & Just Doing It ~52m
- EP Bhak Bollywood — Marketing Lessons from the Movies ~38m
Where cricket meets everything else — strategy and statistics, the human stories behind the game, and the lessons cricket teaches about marketing, leadership, and life. For fans who think while they cheer.
- EP Cricket & Brands — What the IPL Taught Marketing ~40m
- EP The Dravid Way — Craft Over Glory ~35m
The Train
On side upper berths, aunties with luchis, 3 AM cockroach encounters, and why nostalgia lives in the details.
Before marketing decks, there were sketchbooks. Before brand strategy, there was watercolour. The doodling never stopped — it just found new canvases. Signed Alekhya, always.
Alekhya literally means portrait — and that etymology is the thread connecting everything on this broadsheet. This is a space built for someone who refuses to be just one thing.
By day, a marketing leader building brands across premium and international markets — currently across hirist, iimjobs, and Naukrigulf. By instinct, a quizmaster who's conducted quiz shows from the Times of India Quizzard stage to corporate offsites across the country.
By habit, a writer whose Boardroom Bard newsletter on LinkedIn bridges corporate professionalism with deeply personal storytelling — from transportation vignettes to marketing commentary, from cultural observations to fictional conversations between icons.
By weekend, a podcaster running two active shows: Portrait Mode (marketing and culture) and Innings Break (cricket meets everything). By nature, a doodler and watercolour painter. And always — a father, a Calcutta kid at heart, a football and cricket obsessive, and someone who believes that knowing things is cool.