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TBI Innovations: ZIMBA – A Simple Machine To Quench The Thirst For Clean Water

An affordable device that does not need electricity or moving gears but runs only on gravity, is scientist Suprio Das’s answer to water contamination. Nilanjana Nag Pereira reports. Odd as it may seem, innovation and its usage have become inversely proportionate today. Says scientist Suprio Das, “90 per cent of our leading designs are created [...]

May 3, 2012 / 2 Comments / Read More

Project Chirag – Lighting The Path To Progress

April 20, 2012 No Comment

Namrata Hingorani, an ex-Business Consultant who spent 22 years in the US and UK and has recently relocated to Mumbai wanted to celebrate her 40th birthday in a special way. She met with the Project Chirag team and decided to “light up” a village. It takes INR 3000-4000 to light up one house and each [...]

India Untravelled: See The Real India

March 29, 2012 No Comment

Mahatma Gandhi once said “India’s way is not Europe’s, and India lives in seven hundred thousand villages.” To know India one has to know it’s villages, the way of life there – the culture, the traditions and the festivals. The kind of diversity that exists is unimaginable. With the new wave of rural tourism, these [...]

De Kulture: Reviving and Repackaging Traditional Folk Music of India

September 19, 2011 No Comment

Sufi Kalam, Swang Nritya, Terah Taali, Waai, Rasudo, Jangad, Kaafi – if you haven’t heard most of these words before you will definitely appreciate the need for this venture. They are just some of the fast-disappearing forms of traditional folk music you will get to listen to, download and purchase from De Kulture. In addition, [...]

The Climate Project: Spreading awareness on the realities of Climate Change

September 7, 2011 1 Comment

Fighting against the impacts of global warming and climate change is not like any other ‘social’ cause. It is more of a humanitarian call – an attempt to save the entire race from an end, which may not be too far. While the entire world debates and discusses these concerns in various sustainability conferences, India [...]

Picture Book Tree: Sharing Stories with Children

August 29, 2011 No Comment

Parents, many a times, invent new stories to read out to their children. Pooja Sardana is one such parent. Amidst creating new stories for her child, a thought struck her – why not share these stories with other parents so that they too can read them out to their children? Thus was born Picture Book [...]

[Video] Facets of our music and our musical instruments

August 12, 2011 No Comment

There are two styles of music in India – the Hindustani music of North India and the Carnatic music of South India. Did you know that the oldest stringed instrument was found in the sites of the Indus valley civilization? Or that a famous musician cut off his finger joints in order to play [...]

The Village Store: Bringing the urban market to rural India

August 10, 2011 3 Comments

Backpacking through India, Vinay Kumar G. realised that a rural artisan suffers most because of the lack of direct access to markets. More often than not, the products exchange hands of three or four middlemen who pocket all the profits. As the supply of such village based products is more than the demand, the artisans [...]

[Video] Working women break professional barriers and bring social change

July 26, 2011 No Comment

Arti Kaveriappa is a mechanic and runs a garage in Bangalore. A group of 8 women mountaineers scaled Everest. A village in Rajasthan trained its women to build and maintain handpumps. Raj runs her own industrial tool factory. These and many such stories are profiled in this short film titled “Breaking Barriers”. If you are [...]

[Video] Eko: The Resonance of Mobile Banking

July 22, 2011 1 Comment

Salim is a fruit seller and proud father of 3 children. He saves Rs.20-30 each day. He does not have a bank account but has a mobile phone. Guess what..that is enough for him to start banking! This was the premise with which Founder Abhishek Sinha laid the foundation of Eko Financial Services, a novel [...]