“I never loved cooking as a kid yet on one visit to my granny’s home, I saw her set up a kerosene fuel stove on the floor and make snacks for us. I helped all through the cook and I experienced an amazing feeling of serving something in your mind to a plate. I still…
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Open up 142: Women belong in the kitchen!
Women belong in the kitchen. Women should do all the household chores. Women should do all the washing, cleaning, cooking and be the homemakers. Well, this is what we do in some of the homes around the world even today. Once a coworker told me that her in-laws actually lazy around all day without doing…
Open up: 136 – World travel in low budget – Shrinidhi
Shrinidhi has been on the blogging scene since the very beginning and has a huge readership in the arena of travel. Over the years he has blogged about travel, technology and what not. Exploring new shores being his passion, writing his past-time, he had no option but to come out with his first book –…
Open UP: #132
I grew up in a very studious, modern, competitive family and was always ahead of my peers both in studies and sports. I had the best campus placement among all my friends and was blazing through my career. I thought I am settled now. Then it happened. One of my team managers started getting close…
Open UP: #130
“What makes you come to work every day?” “I believe it is a blessing to have such a huge responsibility to serve my country sir. I left my village, my family and friends to serve in the forces. Yes I am worried about the moment if I have to give it all up. We are…
#129: Kris – the evangelist of Software Quality
He has ‘Code’ for a surname and dressed in a clean grey suit and a disarming smile. When you look at him, it is tough to realize that this composed looking person manages over 50 large corporations across three continents, helping them not just to measure their service quality but to improve those metrics on…
Open UP: #128
“I take every day as it comes – fresh, open to challenge, adventure, peace, joy and a chance to share happiness. I strive to be kind, humble and learn something new. I am truly blessed with many loving people around me. I want to be remembered as a good human being than anything else.” Yes….
Open UP: #127
“I am from a small village near here and I have four siblings. Being the eldest in my family, I have to take care of them. I send most of my savings home. I am saving some money from overtime duty for my wife. I will buy something nice for her. It was an arranged…
Open UP: #126 – Bargavi, the Super Mom
Ladoo means the world to me. She is my heartbeat and the one making me stronger day by day to face this world.
The Good You Can!
In a series of simple cute videos less than a minute each called The Good You Can, we learn simple ways of reducing our power bills by 90% by switching to LED and how it can help light up a complete set of homes giving hope, light, and happiness to people who otherwise don’t have…
Open up: #125 Priya, the ray of HOPE
Children give me more than what I give them. It is an unconditional love like no other. That is what keeps me going.
Open UP: #124
Every once in a while we come across someone who stands so tall, strong and energetic that they just lift up your spirit and make everything look possible. If angels were true, these people would be no less. Devi is one such person I had the pleasure of knowing on a first person account. Her…