Terracotta by Sachii: Crafting sustainable yet contemporary lifestyle products

April 25, 2023April 26, 2023 admin FEATURED 0

Terracotta by Sachii is a designed and curated collection of contemporary lifestyle products in traditional terracotta, from heritage pottery clusters of India. According to the Founder Sachii Tripathii, the brand was born in September 2020 with a vision to bring indigenous pottery crafts into the mainstream and help customers live healthy, sustainable and environment-friendly lives, while also helping the artisans sustain themselves as well as helping preserve an integral part of India’s cultural heritage. Says Sachii, “I blend my design skills with handcraft skills of the artisans to co-create contemporary…

From Climate crisis to health- this World Health Day, there is a need to tackle this through a holistic lens

April 6, 2023April 6, 2023 Deepti Ganapathy FEATURED News and events Opinion 0

‘This year’s World Health Day will shine on nurses and midwives, the on-the-call, relentless workforce that revolutionized the healthcare industry as we know it today,’ says the World Health Organization (WHO). The International Confederation of Midwives, an association with 108 member associations in 98 countries, projects a global shortage of 900,000 midwives and those in the sector continue to face discrimination, poor working environments and unequal pay. They are left out of health leadership. “Midwives need an enabling environment. Strategic litigation for better salaries is the need of hour,” says…

The High and Lows of Indian business: Four stories unravelled G. Sabarinathan shares his takeaways from Nandini Vijayaraghavan’s recent book, ‘Unfinished Business’

March 25, 2023March 28, 2023 G. Sabarinathan Case Studies FEATURED 1

I first heard about Nandini Vijayaraghavan a couple of years ago, when a friend of mine forwarded a short review of her translation of Shri Krishnamoorthy’s Tamil classic, Sivakamiyin Sabadam (Sivakami’s Vow). Tamilians of my generation, and that of my parents, grew up waiting for serialized version of this and his other novels in the Tamil weekly, Kalki. You can get a glimpse of Shri Krishnamoorthy’s life and work at https://www.thehindu.com/books/how-kalki-penned-ponniyin-selvan-dipping-into-archival-books-in-an-old-steel-trunk/article65949508.ece and https://www.thehindu.com/books/kalki-krishnamurthy-his-life-and-times-more-than-just-a-biography/article65296015.ece Unfinished Business is no work of fiction, although as Vijayaraghavan notes in the book, quoting Aldous Huxley,…

IIMB & SWAYAM: A fruitful five-year association

March 24, 2023 admin FEATURED 0

SWAYAM is the digital learning platform launched by the Govt of India. The platform hosts many courses on several subjects from several universities across India. This effort aims to make available the best teaching and learning resources to the remotest area free of cost with the help of this platform. IIMB is one of the nine national coordinators of SWAYAM and has offered more than 50 courses on this platform since 2017. Universities and institutions, across India, send their proposals to IIMBx, the digital learning vertical of IIMB, and the…

STEMonsters: Making science appealing to kids

March 23, 2023March 23, 2023 admin FEATURED News and events Opinion 0

STEMonsters is a learning ecosystem for school children, aiming to build, in them, a strong foundation in STEM concepts through interdisciplinary, application-focused programs. According to the founder, Dr. Sonali Dasgupta, the programs help develop a problem-solving mindset while instilling confidence in children to explore the unknown and keeping them engaged and curious. Dr. Sonali Dasgupta adds, “We offer weekly, after-school science and technology learning programs for children (pan-Asia), in the age group of eight to 14 years, wherein they learn by experimenting and building on their own, right from their…

The roadmap to boost brand value: Copylove

March 21, 2023 admin FEATURED News and events Opinion 0

Founded in 2015, Copylove is a boutique copywriting and strategic content solutions studio that offers branding, copywriting and strategic content solutions to corporate enterprises, brands, businesses and entrepreneurs. The Founder Gunjan Pai says that they specialize in creating a wide variety of niche brand work including naming, taglines, positioning, short-form content such as social media, and long-form pieces such as whitepapers, publications, etc. She adds, “We are a lean-principled firm with a collaborative DNA. Our all-women team works remotely from Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Goa. The team makes high-quality, persuasive…

Kavitha Iyer Rodrigues, Founder and CEO, Zumutor Biologics Inc, Anand Sri Ganesh, COO, NSRCEL, IIMB, Malavika R Harita, Member of the Board of Governors at IIMB, Prof. Srivardhini K Jha, Chairperson, NSRCEL, Ankita Pegu, Program Head, Women Startup Program, NSRCEL, IIMB, Prof. Suresh Bhagavatula, faculty in the Entrepreneurship area at IIMB launch SHAKTI – an e-book which is a collection of stories of entrepreneurial pursuits, marked by challenges, sacrifices, losses, gains, learnings and triumphs.

Launch of SHAKTI – an e-book by women entrepreneurs marks a two-day event by NSRCEL at IIMB

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The audience at Pragnya 2023, on 2nd March 2023.

Packed house for Last Lecture 2023 Three faculty members, invited to address the soon-to-graduate PGP & PGPBA Class at IIMB at ‘Pragnya’, impart wisdom crowned with wit

March 3, 2023March 4, 2023 admin FEATURED News and events Student Connect 0

Professor Chetan Subramanian, Professor of Economics and Dean Faculty, had some life lessons to share with the PGP and PGPBA Class of 2023 a few weeks before their graduation: Network and build strong relationships with your peers, remain polite in all your interactions – professional and personal, choose your travelling companion on life’s journey wisely and well, and enjoy the glorious uncertainty and unpredictability of life. Opening his address at the ‘Last Lecture’ for the Class of 2023, on a beautiful evening at the Open-Air Theatre, tongue-firmly-in-cheek he asked: “What…

Ravedesign: A Design Perspective

February 23, 2023February 23, 2023 admin FEATURED Opinion 0

Ravedesign, incubated at NSRCEL, is a design consulting firm with a special focus on retail and the shopping centre industry. Says Co-founder Sangeeta Vernekar, “For retail brand store designs, we add value through creative thought processes based on thorough research on international trends, shopper behavior and operational management. In case of design of shopping centres, we have the required expertise of handling all aspects of design from master planning to architecture, interiors, signage design and placemaking, which is a unique mix of design services. We also offer fit out management…

Odisha fellows explaining sustainability values of handicrafts

Sustainable Handicrafts, Toothsome Edibles, Native-Knitted Clothing & Much More Were Showcased at ‘The MGNF Product Exhibition’ at IIMB on January 25 and 26, 2023

January 30, 2023January 30, 2023 admin FEATURED Opinion 0

Highlights: The Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship Programme by IIMB conducted an Exhibition on January 25 and 26. Products were brought by MGNF fellows from around 40 districts covering six states – Karnataka, Goa, Odisha, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Tripura. The exhibition’s objective was to espouse local artistic livelihoods and surface perceptions of urban consumers on products made by SHGs, tribal communities, and others. The Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship Programme held an exhibition showcasing sustainable handcrafts, toothsome edibles, native-knit clothing, recycled books, etc., at the IIMB Campus on January 25 and 26,…