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Project Akshar: A Word That Makes A Difference

Project Akshar was started in 2011 when the students at SIFE SSCBS saw bundles of sheets getting wasted and dumped in the landfills. Their vision of providing affordable educational resources to the economically backward (underprivileged children), while empowering a marginalized community (hearing impaired women), in an eco friendly way, was fulfilled when they started working [...]

February 22, 2012 / 1 Comment / Read More

Jagriti Agro Tech: Bringing Organic Produce Directly To Consumers

February 1, 2012 No Comment

I met Ashmeet Kapoor a year ago, on a one-of-its-kind train journey called the Jagriti Yatra. It was an 18-day long journey of entrepreneurship that took young, bright potential leaders of India across the length and breadth of this nation to discover grassroots enterprises in a whole new way. Back then, who knew that this [...]

NCR Blanket Distribution Drive – Helping the Poor in their Battle for Survival

January 23, 2012 1 Comment

In the freezing January night of Delhi, when the entire city dons their sweaters, monkey-caps and mufflers with a hot cup of tea (which they enjoy holding instead of drinking), there are few under-privileged who cannot afford even a blanket and die – without a roof or cloth on their bare bodies – to add [...]

Aaramshop: To the rescue of the Kirana store

August 23, 2011 1 Comment

In recent years, the traditional kirana stores inIndiahave been losing a substantial portion of their business to Large Retail Formats (LRF). While these huge retailers of groceries and consumer products have taken to technology, the kirana stores have remained lsrgely backward in their methods and operations. This has left them in an uncompetitive spot. How [...]

Thinking Beyond Ones’ Own: Freesia and the Uday Foundation

August 19, 2011 No Comment

When one becomes a parent, there is a sense of selflessness which is born within. However, this feeling is generally limited to taking care of the child while sacrificing one’s own lifestyle. But sometimes, birth of a child can take the feeling of selfless service to a new high – greatly benefiting society at large. [...]

Khoj: A movement of, by and for the artists

July 8, 2011 No Comment

I first came to know about Khoj International Artists’ Association when I met Pooja Sood, one of their founder-directors. The only thing common between me and Pooja was that we were both present at the UnBox Design Festival in Delhi. The difference being that I was a media representative and she was a speaker called [...]

Putting the brakes on sexual harassment – in the Delhi Metro

June 29, 2011 No Comment

A bouquet of people in yellow clothes congregate on a busy New Delhi metro platform. They are men and women, old and young, but all dressed in slogan-strewn, canary yellow shirts. “Share, don’t stare”. “Real men respect women”. “Respecting women is masculine”. They string into a long line, and wait for a few trains to [...]

What can we learn from a Knife Sharpening Man?

May 25, 2011 1 Comment

Like many superstitions that get carried on from one generation to the next by word of mouth, there goes a belief in many parts of India that if you idly play with scissors in a rapid, cutting motion, it disturbs harmony in the house, leading to fights and disagreements, especially for the person engaged in [...]

Changing Delhi: One Cab Ride at a Time

May 12, 2011 8 Comments

It’s no secret that New Delhi is unsafe for women. With recent articles showing that at least one woman is molested in New Delhi every day and reports of women being molested by their cab drivers, it’s no wonder many women choose to stay at home. And yet, as of last December, there is another [...]

Project Why: Making A Difference Where it Matters

May 4, 2011 1 Comment

In a bustling metropolis like Delhi, most of us get used to living with slums around us. They form an important part of our daily lives by supplying maids, drivers , cooks to our homes. But not many of us have had the time and the inclination to look into their lives especially their children. [...]