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 ...

--> Home to the personal residential tower of Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance industries Limited, located in South Mumbai, Antilia is the most expensive home in the world. Similarly Mumbai has most of the high-rise buildings in India with the eighteenth highest number of skyscrapers in the world. However, this financial capital relies on road transport and a significant portion of that is the taxi service. The vehicles (down below) have undergone a complete transformation from what they were before. Familiar with those ‘kaali-peeli’ cabs that trudge along the road and honk their horns every now and then? One thing is certain and that is that the role of taxis has never been as important as is now! These cabs were actually introduced to Mumbai in 1911 to complement horse wagons and they form a very integral part of the city’s heritage. They also have been depicted in Bollywood movies. They were actually named after a legendary Indian Queen Padm...

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...