Memories of eco-friendlier era

It’s time for us to learn once again, to use, reuse and discard without harming our planet. “ Get the jhola(cloth bag) and  come along son, we are going to buy vegetables”, these were usual words of my father when he wanted to go for vegetable, da...

Bunker Roy

"The man behind “Barefoot College”, a place where illiterate grandmothers and mothers are trained to become engineers!!" To be or not to be is a choice that lay within us. Most of us are not even aware that we can practice them. We follow a roadmap ...

MALAWI

Malawi is a country in southwest Africa. Its population is predominantly rural, and it is one of the least developed countries in the world. A significant part of the rural population lacks running water, and, according to a Portuguese couple who re...

#LikeAGirl

Like many women I know, I was told repeatedly by my older brother growing up that I threw a softball "like a girl"— despite turning in an impressive season many years later as shortstop for a co-ed softball team I organized at the University of Hawai...

Living to serve the dead

Where many can't push themselves to help the living, we find a few who think about dead. In the quest to sustain ourselves, the survival of others around us matter only little to us. Our everyday small struggles like getting stuck in Mumbai traffi...

Footpath

With the footpaths becoming close to extinction, we fail to provide a safe path for the pawns who fight for our everyday survival. The worth of pawn is only realized when they are not left to defend. The roads in our country or more correctly the ba...

HUMAN TRAFFICKING

"Thirteen-year-old Geeta ran away from home In the hope of uniting with her beloved, she instead was sold and resold in Delhi and Mumbai  brothels and forced into selling her flesh every night" Geeta was one of the few who was rescued by Prajwal  fo...