Real & Responsible

Reel icons make an outstanding impact when they decide to be real and responsible. A gentle reminder for the hands that litter, and thankful  to those who clear litter as well. The man who clears litter created by you is exactly a man like us. F...

FEMINISM

Feminism—with a small but strident f—is having a cultural moment. From Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg to Beyonce, it is becoming part of the mainstream. And this week, it marched onto center stage in Manhattan, at two of the nation's biggest annual socia...

ONLINE HARASSMENT

Online harassment is on the rise, affecting 25 percent of all Americans, and especially women under the age of 35, according to a new national poll discussed today by a panel of women at the annual Personal Democracy Forum convening in New York. Acro...

RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS

When I was offered my job at Hancock Creative, I was given not a contract, but a bouquet of flowers, delivered to my door, with a little note welcoming me to the team. I mean, I was given a contract too – they’re a fairly professional bunch at Hancoc...

The Unglorified Spy

Mani was a Boy and Rajamani Saraswati a woman, who gave away everything that was hers, for Indian’s freedom— Including her identity “She is going to shoot the British when she grow up” was her reply to Mahatma Gandhi, when he met a barely ten ye...

Born Rare

Unusual, Uncommon, Not regular. They are differently able. Do we see them as disables? Time to change our mind set Surveys reveal that people with disabilities consistently fight with their odds and find their ways to live a happy life.  So why ...

Social Media

The hindi phrase of "naikikarkuaeinmeindaal" is now more appropriately called "kuch bhi kar facebook pe daal" "Sahil and Prerna (names changed) got divorced!  It was a shocking news. They had just returned from holidaying in Florence, and Prerna's t...

ENTERTAINING RESPONSIBLY

It has never been easier to escape reality – or to escape your own self! Technology offers easy distractions and escape routes, while self-help gurus give easy fixes to everything that goes wrong. In short you can let yourself off the hook so easily ...

BUSINESS VS ETHICS

Business, as the root word “busy” suggests, is something that we do, and when business and ethics collide, it is applied ethics—real-life situations in which ethical questions of right and wrong, and of good and bad, are tested in actual business sce...

Smoke Street Music

Smoke Street Music Bringing good music closer to its audience, wherever they are, instead of waiting for them to come to a venue is mission Smoke Street Music. Smoke Street is a destination where Singers, musicians, music creators and presenters hav...