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December 7, 2017 5 Comments

LAKSHMI MITTER, WRITER AND ILLUSTRATOR

“A writing course changed things for me”, says 38 year old Lakshmi Mitter, a post graduate in Economics and Management Research. Lakshmi decided to take a break from her job at an MNC to enjoy motherhood, thinking she would return someday to corporate life. But it was during that break she participated in a writing course and discovered the writer in her. Lakshmi started writing for The Deccan Herald on a myriad of topics like Economics, Finance, etc. and also contributed

March 4, 2019 Leave a comment

NAMMA BOOMI!

An Initiative To Free The World From Plastic Ms. Arulpriya, the Founder and CEO of Namma Boomi is a Wonder Woman in every sense of the word. After working in HCL for 8 years, she quit to start her own company. The trigger was fruit peels lying in a plastic garbage cover! The sight troubled her immensely and she felt a strong urge to delve deeper into research in waste management. She began by trying to develop and implement a

October 5, 2018 Leave a comment

OLD BAGGAGE CLOUDS OUR MINDS

This morning, our garbage bag was left uncollected outside our apartment. Like most places, the maintenance staff collects our garbage everyday. I knew that they had come as I had instructed the maid who works at our place to hand over the garbage. Yet an hour later, it lay there, open and not tied. Puzzled, I asked the maid. She told me that everyday she walks up to the bin and dumps the garbage herself while the maintenance staff look

August 16, 2018 One comment

FREEDOM TO READ

As long as children are reading books with age appropriate topics, the type of book, (graphic novel or a picture book or a text loaded book), shouldn’t matter. At least they are reading something… Alok is seven years old and he loves to read books with a lot of pictures. He prefers funny story books over serious non-fiction books. For him, story books take him to an imaginary place where he can have a good laugh and have fun.