The large jackfruit that grows in our garden, seems to have become the cynosure of all eyes in the neighbourhood. Since it is a seasonal tree and bears fruit once in a year, it gets a regular audit from our neighbours – “Are there signs of fruits this year? How many do you think? Last year we had 10 and relished the experience during the lockdown”, so on and so forth. During the monsoon last year, when we were all struggling to cope with the pandemic, the jackfruit tree was…
21 April, 2021, Bengaluru: Impresa is an online clothing store that runs with a view to support handloom weavers across India. In its early years, it may be seen more as an experiment in humanitarianism than a business. “We locate, across India, weaving colonies which had run into financial trouble and hire them to weave original clothes for display and sale under the brand Impresa through the venture’s Facebook page. We use social media to spread awareness on the need to support India’s weaving communities,” says Anjali Chandran, the Founder, who has a Master’s degree from BITS Pilani and worked with Wipro, before choosing to launch her own enterprise. She…
21 April, 2021, Bengaluru: Quantanx is a technology company created with the sole purpose of pushing technology to its threshold. Its flagship product Xtangible, which implies extended touch, is a haptic feedback glove, broadening touch capabilities to the realms of the virtual world. This is just the foremost of many products the company plans on contributing to the tech industry. The goal is not just creating something state-of-the-art but also being beneficial to the better part of science and global development. The founders, Surabhi and Mahanthesh, met during their undergraduate degree. With a…