The Smart Crow
The Thirsty Crow – On a hot day, a thirsty crow flew all over the fields looking for water. He couldn’t find any water but saw a water jug near the village. The crow sat on the rim of the jug and looked inside – he could see […]
Plastic Use Reducing across India
When I heard the news that plastic bags and one-time use plastic is being banned in TamilNadu, I didn’t believe it at all. I have been in Chennai frequently since 2015 and have seen the rampant use of plastic bags – every store I went to would first […]
Milk, Butter, Memories and plastic
During summer holidays we would visit both my paternal and maternal grandparents. At my paternal grandmother’s place, they had cows at home and the milk would be heated in a heavy bottomed pan throughout the day as coffee was made or people drank milk. At night, my grandmother […]
Rain-Serviced Earth
I love the rains.. it was stormy and raining when I was born, so my mother doesn’t like the rains much for she went through a near death experience while giving birth to me but for me its the sound associated with my birth and hence soothing. Over […]
The Plastic Apathy
My dear friend Javed shared this video on our WhatsApp group and it made many of us emotional… Do watch the video and wonder about the kind of world we are creating for our children – no trees, no colorful flowers plastic filled oceans, plastic flowers, plastic plates, […]
Live and Travel Sustainably… #BeatPlasticPollution #ConserveWater
We were on a 26 day road trip through Lucknow-Allahabad-Varanasi-Patna-Gaya as part of our ShikshaDaan Yatra. Even as we were confirming our hotel bookings, the first thing we checked with all the hotels is whether they have filtered or RO water and insisted that we would want our […]
Leadership Lessons from the Bhagavad Gita 7 – Imperishable
Am not sure if Lord Krishna ever thought that man would create plastic to rival the imperishable soul…. he might have changed verse 17 of Chapter 2 slightly if he knew or maybe he has said something in some other verse to tackle the imperishable plastic !!! Chapter […]
Dear Hindustan Unilever…
The first thing I want to say is I am a huge admirer of HUL. It’s not a CEO factory for nothing. It’s people practices are far superior to many global HR organisations. We Indians have grown up using HLL products and call it by any name, HLL […]
Waved out the Microwave
We bought a microwave 15 years back and ever since then, it has been an important appliance in the kitchen. I initially used it just to reheat stuff, then to cook rice. Then I figured out I could steam vegetables in it and then discovered roasting papad and […]
