(September 10, 2024) Social entrepreneur Akshai Sarin’s website opens into a little blitzkrieg of photos – you see him chatting casually with Paris Hilton and standing with an arm around Amitabh Bachchan. Sarin is a serial entrepreneur and a maverick, with...
(May 29, 2023) Being an expat is hard, and often lonely. Reema Mahajan felt this acutely when she landed in Dubai for work. All alone in this big city, Reema wanted new friends, and one day, decided to make a group on Facebook. She asked the few members present if...
(August 13, 2022) The practice of urban planning in India dates back thousands of years. The remains of the Indus Valley civilisation are testament to well-thought out, detailed city plans. Mohenjo-Daro city included roads with perpendicular intersections and...
(September 30, 2021) For over five decades Bala V Balachandran, or Bala as he was better known, carved a niche for himself as an Indian academic of repute. From teaching at the prestigious Kellogg School of Management, being a key member of the team that...
(September 23, 2021) “If you don’t know your history, you are destined to repeat it.” To revere history and make sense of it is this archival missionary’s attempt to make humans learn from the past. He has taken on the gargantuan task of documenting migration and...
