Category: Blogger Social Responsibility
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Sheroes – Tavleen’s Smartizens in a Smart city.
Citizens— can now morph to Smartizens. Tavleen Mehendiratta was a speaker at SHEROES who has a lot of passion for what she does, so much so, it has changed her entire course of life. Her anthem has now turned to the future is not cars but mobility. Sounds quite paradoxical for an automobile engineer to…
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The Road Hogs
This is the road safety week, I hear talks, about helmet wearing, speed driving, congested roads all cited as examples. Everyone is aware where the repair work has to be done. But there are small things we don’t ask, why do these accidents occur? Just look at our road hogs… If you wonder what I…
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The town of Akola
Still on the trail of swach Bharat with NDTV and fellow blogger it was day-2 From Buldana, to Akola district, we stayed at the town of Akola, at a place called Jasnagar Hotel. The town of Akola, looked slow paced, it was as if the town wanted to share her story with us, old British building,…
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The Autorickshaw.
I am at Bangalore for the “Sheroes summit.” Enroute from JPnagar to Brigade road, I was to pick up an auto. Last month when I was here, the auto drivers were relieved that cargo trucks were banned from 8am -8pm. Well I did see them around. This time round the Banglore police apparently has come…
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Will you not shave– for a month?
Gillette is running a contest, with the tag “Will you shave?” being a woman, I say no, but this the era of equality, and so Gillette offers an alternate. That we could write a blog post about the men in my life on the following theme, An instant when stubble came in the way of…
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COMMUNITY KITCHEN.
When we were kids, it was quite acceptable for kids from the villages to attend the town school; those who had relatives in town went to their house for lunch. Then there were houses that took on “vaarada oota” that is families would take on feeding couple of school going kids once a week. The…