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May 7

Nurturing the Girl Child to be a Self-reliant Adolescent Aatma nirbhar bharat ke liye aatma nirbhar ladakiyan, (self-reliant girls for a self-reliant India) is my theme for adolescent girls. Just recently India concluded commemorating the Girl Child Week. The Government of India started this program in 2008, to create awareness regarding safety and nurturing of the…

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Apr 26

Second Wave of COVID Pandemic World Health Organization declared the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) a pandemic in March 2020. Since then, countries around the world have seen a high rate of infections that still continues, a year later. In India, we had the first wave that peaked in September, and gradually subsided. By January the cases…

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During the ongoing COVID19 pandemic, parents have been known to rightly give a great amount of attention to the physical health of their children. However, they are not comfortable addressing any issues concerning mental health in their children in most cases. Parents certainly notice a change in behaviour in their children by norms of being…

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It has been almost 9 months since I have been volunteering with Project StepOne. I must say, I have made many discoveries during this time, and as such, have been able to contribute to, on an almost daily basis to save lives via this truly unique platform that has brought the government, the citizens, technology,…

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Emancipation of Women Man has evolved from a monkey, there is enough evidence to prove it all. Whether Adam came first and how was it Eve, will someone come forward and tell us please? The Forbidden Apple they ate, the surrounding aura and atmosphere that made them copulate! They danced and pranced amongst trees, so salubrious…

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The ‘new normal’ – Citizen Social Responsibility (The other CSR) Enough has been written and said about the pandemic and how it has transformed lives. There are the obvious things such as working from home which we live everyday. Equally obvious are things we see, such everyone wearing masks. But, there are many less obvious…

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Food For Thought!! Covid times have re-emphasized the importance of diet. We are all eating nutritious food, & are very conscious of eating a good amount of fruits & vegetables, consuming proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins & minerals in the right proportions. We are being very careful while buying food items, checking out their nutritional values…

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Jan 18

CARPE DIEM

CARPE DIEM ‘Focus on the good and the good increases’ Finally, the year 2020 has come to an end. The year that we areprobably going to remember forever. The catch here is that the year has been memorable not just because of the emergency created by the pandemic but also because of the opportunity that many people…

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Learning to Cook in 14 Days! It is 15th August 2020, our Independence Day! Jai Hind to all my fellow Indians! Just before my lunch break I connect with Mrs. Sudha Moorthy (No No…not the Infosys Matriarch) a 52 year old lady now living in Pune, Maharashtra. This is a Telephonic Follow-up call for persons…

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Where there is a heart, there is a way! | My StepOne Journey When this year, 2020, started, scarcely did one think of how it would evolve. Come March 2020, the whole of humanity was enveloped in a crisis. As my organization declared work-from-home for 3 weeks in a row, followed by a country-wide lockdown…