Kruttika Nadig


Kruttika Nadig is a chess player from Maharashtra, India. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster and won the Indian national women's championship in 2008. Nadig competed in the Women's World Chess Championship 2010; she was knocked out in the first round by compatriot Harika Dronavalli. She played for India in the Women's World Team Chess Championship and Women's Asian Team Chess Championship in 2009, and for India women's team in the World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad in 2003.
She is also a journalist.

Academics

Kruttika studied in the ICSE , Bangalore. Her mother, Devika Nadig, is the Director of , a teacher training NGO based in Pune.
Kruttika completed a postgraduate residential programme from Asian School of Journalism where she learnt how to write stories, which also lead to her career in Journalism.

Career

After her successful stint in the highly competitive game of Chess at International Levels, Kruttika was dabbling with ideas of different entrepreneurial enterprises, something that would be monetarily beneficial in the long run and also add value to the community around her. In 2015, after coming across an article online about cool co-working spaces, she designed a Community Organization called Idea Mil, a co-working space for creative directors, entrepreneurs and even students. She set the studio up in her parents' apartment in the bustling town of Pune. It is a mix between technology and vintage — laptops and wi-fi paired with shelves of books and open seating.
The startup can house up to 16-members with enough space for privacy. The place is open for everyone throughout the week from 9 am to 7 pm.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the co-working space is currently shut down.