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Sticking up for Indian hockey

The World Series Hockey that was all set to start this week, has been postponed at the last moment to February 2012. With big stadiums and extremely well paid players, this new concept is supposed to be giving Indian hockey the glamour back it once had. But while WSH is still battling some teething problems, the future of Indian [...]

January 9, 2012 / No Comment / Read More

LiveJam: Calling the youth to Live out Loud

January 3, 2012 No Comment

Rock music and drugs go a long way; in the 1960s when psychedelic music became popular, some musicians encouraged and intended listeners of psychedelic music to be under the influence of LSD or other hallucinogenic drugs as enhancements to the listening experience. More recently, in a 2004 interview, Paul McCartney said that the Beatles songs [...]

Bright Child Foundation: Simple efforts towards education

December 27, 2011 1 Comment

Early this year, Shikhar Gupta, a software engineer at CISCO, decided to tread on the path of social entrepreneurship. In spite of his workplace responsibilities and numerous other activities crowding his day, he made a choice to take some time out for things that he really cared about – for giving a better future to [...]

Help A Child : Transforming India through the Gift of Education

December 1, 2011 1 Comment

As most of us know, Education is one of the possible remedies the doctors have recommended for India to reap it’s demographic dividend in the coming decades. But the truth is higher education has increasingly become unaffordable for the middle class India let alone the BHARAT that’s lives on less than $1 per day. But [...]

Pick A Fight Challenges You to Care

September 22, 2011 No Comment

PickAFight.in is a community that connect those who are fighting for a cause and looking for help, with people that are willing to join in and help. A ‘fight’ could be a social good initiative from a non-profit, a company or an individual or a group of friends in their local community. What strikes us as [...]

Bol Hyderabad! Campus Radio to achieve social good

September 9, 2011 No Comment

A collaboratively developed radio station on a University Campus sounds like a great idea. And its time has come at the University of Hyderabad! The University with help from individuals from diverse platforms such as university students, civil servants, educationists, IT professionals, scholars and farmers has launched its own community radio station, Bol Hyderabad. Amongst [...]

Youth Alliance: For the cause of India

August 16, 2011 1 Comment

Youngsters are always standing at the crossroads of life, constantly taking decisions and shaping their careers. It is very rare for modern day youth to think beyond the nitty-gritties of their own lives and take up the service of their nation as their primary goal and endeavour. And hence, when I met Prakhar Bhartiya, [...]

SMV Wheels: A Social Enterprise Empowering Rickshaw Pullers

May 28, 2011 1 Comment

Manual Rickshaws are a significant means of conveyance in this country. According to a recent estimate, there are 10 million rickshaw pullers & 20 million push-cart vendors in India. Most of them are victims of exorbitant daily rentals and the mafia that doesn’t allow them to own the rickshaws. Many of them live on pavements [...]

Are you a Paperman too?

May 11, 2011 5 Comments

Have you ever wondered what happens to the daily newspaper once you sell it to the ‘kabadi wala’? Have you ever considered what happens to the piles of rough notes that you make during exams, or the thousand of wasted office paper? Even if you haven’t, there is someone out there who did. And he [...]

Delhi Cyclists: Conquering the Road Ahead – Pedal by Pedal

March 16, 2011 1 Comment

If you thought that cycling is something restricted to children, then the Delhi Cyclists will make you re-think. Delhi Cyclists – a group formed by a few cycling enthusiasts in 2010 aims to promote cycling and the benefits associated with it. Within just a few months of its inception, the group grew to about a [...]