Most of us reading this are going to vote. Each of us has the power to make social impact. Starting with acknowledging that I have borrowed some of the information from the Citizen Matters article. While I am not going to rephrase the article here. Do read its quite insightful. Well the great game ...
Volunteering, Millennials & Giving
One of the recent surveys on volunteering spoke about the fact that over 70 % of millennials give time and money to causes they support. While it was a US survey, I am sure those numbers won’t be too different in India. During my millennial days ( when I was a decade younger) I knocked [&helli...
Folder from Poop
What’s big deal with folder. Well its great to keep documents. Brochures you get during a conference. Also if you feel like having fun , put some paper clips over it and get creative. The best part is you can keep using it till it tears , so has a very high reusable element. What […]...
9.6 Million cancer deaths a year
Cancer. Yup it has captured attention of Indians . It has also been subject of many true fake whatsapp messages. Fortunately it is not 1971 when the Iconic Hindi movie Anand about Cancer patient who rises above his disease and spreads happiness . In that Anand suffered and died of it .I will bet you...
Smiles,Garbage et al
Smiles , more smiles which greets me. I am in main X road at Naubad in Bidar. It is 700kms from Bangalore , takes a 14 hr train journey from my luru. (train stops almost an hour at Vikarabad to change direction of engine, while you can enjoy hot idli and wada). It is about 315 […]...
Green wedding
Weddings in our country can be exercises in excess (definition of excess may change in light of high profile weddings recently). While everyone wants to celebrate their weddings in their own way ( and no qualms about it , its your money or your parents money). However the materials used for decorati...
Small is beautiful and recycled
We have been providing conferences and offices with recycled, sustainable stationary over the past year. While these are typically orders of range of multiples of 100s. In these cases we customize the notebooks, pencils etc with company logo . Recently we managed to complete order for custom noteboo...
2018:Waste,Recycled,Running,Education
2018 is/was? year 1 for us at Ashwidea. Today being one of the last few days of 2018 , its good time to recap on how the year has been. I don’t have star rating system unlike Rajeev masand or anupama chopra , but will try giving you a snapshot of how it went. Waste […]...
Brown or White
You may have observed that notebooks in our Green office portfolio are brown shade unlike the notebooks you usually encounter. The brown colour is natural colour of recycled paper from which these notebooks are made. The white paper which you use regularly, takes many cycles of bleaching,polishing t...
Football for life(skills)
This december is a very important month in Indian sports calendar. IPL auctions got over making the usual headlines for turning teenagers into crorepatis and providing them launch pad. Advent of sports leagues augurs well for our country which is usual obsessed with Class X, XII marks. While it is a...