I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
Can Food Waste be a preventable problem? What if one could increase the shelf life of vegetables and fruits we consume? How much of economic waste would that help tackle? GreenPod Labs states that 40% of the vegetables and fruits are lost due to spoilage/over ripening. As an Agri-biotech company they are working on sustainable …
The startup that creates Carbon tiles out of Polluted Air Gurgaon’s air quality index today is 387 AQI. The ideal range for human life quality is between 0-50. Is that the inheritance we want to leave our children with? As part of my #TheGoodFund research of socially impactful tech start-ups, I recently stumbled upon the …
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“I want to be very wealthy when I grow up” Dad looked up, bemused and asked, “But why, ‘mole’?” (daughter, in Malayalam) Wealth, according to my middle class, government salaried parents meant that it was most probably acquired by dubious means. And as a culture, aspiration was meant for life’s higher ideals, not baser, material …
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I have an extremely visceral reaction to food that is wasted. My grandmother was widowed at a very young age with around 9 kids between 23 to 2 With a meagre monthly pension to support her, she indexed on making sure her kids were educated. She was deeply intelligent and ensured that every resource at …
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Why do fresh produce at source cost 1/10 the prices we pay in cities? We spend our summer vacations at our uncle’s farm in a rural village in the South of India. A lot of farmers worked the lands, for what seemed to me, like meagre returns. Their teenage girls, as young as myself at …
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Turning discarded temple flowers into incense and vegan leather, whilst providing hundreds of jobs for local women My grand mom was quite a religious woman. On days like Diwali or Krishna Janmastami, her house came alive in colors. With orange and yellow marigolds at every door and jasmine in threads in everyones’ hair. But then, …
UNICEF estimated 44,000 Indian women die annually due to preventable childbirth-related causes. I had an extremely high risk pregnancy. Weeks ahead of my due date, I woke up with a splitting headache and the blood pressure monitor threw up an error. My husband insisted on visiting the hospital before going to work. So I did …
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I have been researching Startups in Tech driving Social Impact Potentially backed by Women in Tech It brings together all that I am passionate about – Live your potential, no matter where you are – And Leveraging Tech for Good to Drive Social Impact My hope is, at some point in the future, to start …
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