Month: June 2021

Coping with COVID through creative techniques Leanne Pais created The Unopened Box as an Instagram page. Since then, with support from NSRCEL, they have grown to have over 2000 organic followers and run a four-employee revenue generating organisation

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The Unopened Box is a mental health organisation that helps people heal patterns of trauma through mental healing services provided by qualified professionals that include but are not limited to therapy, workshops, training, events and community-based initiatives. The Unopened Box offers coping mechanisms to as many people as possible through creative and innovative techniques. “Our intention is to help people own, heal and reclaim their story, by pushing boundaries on self-limiting beliefs in a non-judgmental supportive space,” says Leanne Pais, a psychological therapist (Marriage and Family Therapy) with extensive work…

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Brewing a unique business model With the aim to build bridges between food and communities through innovation in existing food ecosystems, Honey launched Kombucha Brewers India and says the mentoring provided by NSRCEL at IIMB is helping her achieve business milestones

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Kombucha Brewers India is a fermentation-based food startup based in Bangalore. They are on a mission to make gut-friendly and innovative foods and beverages by harnessing the power of microbes. They believe that building bridges between food and communities through innovation in existing food ecosystems can address issues like food-waste, malnutrition, hunger and gut-health – the epicenter of human wellbeing. Honey, the founder, is a self-taught kombucha brewer and fermentation educator who has four years of experience in the fermentation space. A self-confessed microbes-lover, her expertise lies in kombucha-based product…

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In pursuit of the not so mythical unicorn

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The recent rapid emergence of unicorns in India leads Professor G. Sabarinathan1, 2to explore this phenomenon and ponder whether the obsession has gone too far Last week, CBInsights, now an almost universal go-to shop for data on startups and tech businesses, published a list of unicorns across the world. At 702, the number of unicorns surprised me although it need not have, going by the almost daily flow of news of the minting of the newest unicorn somewhere in the world. That size of 700 was significant enough for anyone…

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So, how you doin’? With a nod to the most awaited reunion of ‘Friends’, Mridul Nedungottil, from the EPGP Class of 2021-22, shares two crucial takeaways from learning during the lockdown

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Two months of this financial year came to completion, recently. Yes, bankers and financial enthusiasts prefer saying ‘financial year’ rather than just using the word ‘year’. It is boring, and as an ex-banker, I will use financial year! As many listeners have told me in the past, I feel it adds a funny layer of sophistication—something required by an MBA graduate, perhaps! Anyway, a lot has transpired in these 60 odd days. We are attending online classes in our rooms (a few of us at Ajmera and others at our…

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The Unsung Guardians To mark World Environment Day, Dr Deepti Ganapathy writes on forests and their caretakers

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This World Environment Day, I would like readers to shift their focus to the sentinels who guard our forest eco-systems. It could be the farmer staying on the fringes of a forest or Padmashree awardee Saalumarada Thimakka. India’s rich biodiversity makes it a land of plenty. Rivers originate from this thriving eco-system, irrigating the hinterland, and plants and animals flourish in these forests. The Western Ghats, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, passes through all the states on the western peninsula, and is host to millions of organisms. It is also…

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