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 ...

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...