Prayers bring Hindu and Muslim communities together

"Bengal’s Durga Puja is a social festival first and a religious festival later" - Suddhabrata Deb

“Right from the puja mela (fair) to being res...

Stop Killing Your Grandmother For The Nth Time!

A recent tweet by a web developer, Madalyn Parker about her CEO’s response to her email has sparked an important conversation about mental health. Parker, who suffers...

Ola Partners With WWF India To Contribute To 'Sahasra Jyoti' Initiative

India’s largest cab-hailing service, Ola has started taking interest in CSR activities in India. The company recently partnered with Mahindra and Maharashtra Governme...

Renaming Places And Roads!!!

The practice of renaming is often a political gimmick. Or it may be some individual politician’s fetish to grab mileage. The familiar ritual has existed for year...

A change called NeHA

Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a world where tapping a piece of glass in the palm of your hand would allow you to watch a movie, order food, hail a...

500 Women Who Are Manual Scavengers Soon To Become Cabbies

The project has been taken up by the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment as a part of the National Safai Karamcharis Finance & Development Corporation’s (NSKFDC) wor...

Dil Ka Haal Sune Dilwala

Growing up in Calcutta gave us grounding in sound middle class values out of which I was constructed. We lived in a four room rented ground floor place, P92 SardarSankar Ro...

Ola Goes Green In Delhi; Ola Drivers Offered Rs 1 Lakh Incentives For Moving to CNG Vehicles

In yet another first for an Indian taxi company, Bengaluru based taxi aggregator Ola has announced incentives upto Rs 1 lakh for drivers if they convert their taxis into CN...

The Women of New York?s City Hall

With Manhattan still cloaked in early-morning darkness, New York City’s new sanitation commissioner stepped into a semicircle of 40 men holding brooms and dustpans as...