Karina Pandya

What if your work environment was a lot more flexible and you could have a far more fluid work system?    Work culture in India and across the world has certainly transformed over the years. With technology at the tip of our hands, we are able to perform our jobs at any time and any place. The entire concept of the ‘fixed cubicle’-working 5 days a week on a 9 to 5 routine schedule has completely changed. Coworking is a style of work where it involves sharing a common workplace with others, often an office and independent activity. Quite contrary from the normal office these coworking venues have people from different organisations working there. In fact you could say, it is a common hub of a social gathering where a group of people who work independently, share certain values working in the same space alongside each other. This is most commonly seen amongst freelancers who work from home, by allowing them to escape the distractions of home.   It is ...

The 18 th century was the beginning of a one of the most important financial crisis that India has ever faced when it was colonised after long years of slavery by the British Empire and the British East India Company.    They arrived in India in the 1740's and established trading ports in many cities under the control of the East India Company.   The British rule lasted in India for a good portion of time – nearly 200 years and the endurance of their rule was remarkable given the physical size of the country. However, this year 2018 as we celebrate the 72 nd Independence Day, let us remind ourselves about the dawn of the era from the clutches of the British colonialism. Besides this, there are also some surprising facts about India’s Independence Day that may surprise you! 1)      August 15 th is also celebrated as the Independence Day in other countries namely – North Korea, Bahrain, S...

Everywhere on the ground lay sleeping natives-- hundreds and hundreds. They lay stretched at full length and tightly wrapped in blankets, heads and all. Their attitude and rigidity counterfeited death. Mark Twain, on a nocturnal drive through Bombay in 1896. “A three-year old orphan remains unattended to because her mother “cannot” attend to her…This is the reality in Mumbai’s slum life. Struggling everyday to survive, in these slum houses, there are at a minimum 6-8 people living together in cramped up tiny spaces.   Clean water is not accessible. Lighting…of course –its not there! To make things worse, there is permanently a very bad smell in the air.  There are no ‘hygienic latrines’ and the only option is to use ‘hanging latrines’, which are dangerous – because sometimes a child can fall into the latrine and get injured. 15-20 families have to share one sanitary latrine. So, how can you remain healthy after using this water?” This is the rea...