Steaming ahead!

Steaming ahead! Incubated at NSRCEL, under the Women Start-up Programme, BluePine Foods, by Aditi Madan, hopes to change the way we eat

March 25, 2021March 25, 2021 admin1 FEATURED News and events Opinion 0

BluePine Foods is a food start-up with an endeavour to improve food shelf life and deliver convenience to consumers by providing ready to eat/ cook food in a healthy (read steamed) form. A huge part of farm/agro produce gets wasted due to its limited shelf life and inadequate infrastructure to process the same for future consumption. “Our endeavor is to be part of the solution by preserving the food without preservatives, captured early at its highest nutrient stage, providing it for consumption in the healthiest way possible, minimizing waste. We…

What NEP 2020 overlooked Prof. Malay Bhattacharyya lists five key areas that policymakers would do well to focus on

January 4, 2021January 4, 2021 Malay Bhattacharyya FEATURED Opinion 0

Educate mothers: A child, in its formative years, especially in India, is almost always with its mother every day, in most families. This is the time when a child’s character gets moulded. An educated mother, as it were, is critical for education of her child. Children look up to their mothers for answers to all questions – from academic information to social norms, from hygiene and health to values, from nature to sports. Mother is the first teacher and the go-to person for every child. A well-resourced mother, who answers…

Twenty Years On… Prof. G. Sabarinathan shares glimpses of his journey of two decades at IIM Bangalore

November 3, 2020November 3, 2020 Sabarinathan G Books By Faculty FEATURED Opinion 0

It was twenty years ago to this day that I drove into IIMB to start a new phase in my life. It was not just the start of a new career. It was Kannada Rajyotsava day. As my black ambassador, as old as myself back then, rolled through the streets of the campus, directionlessly because I did not know the way, it may have been a curious sight to the few residents who may have been looking at the streets. Cars were relatively few on the campus in those days. …

Combining tech and food Incubated at NSRCEL, Supply6 looks at giving urban working people, who are strapped for time, convenient food options

September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 admin1 FEATURED News and events Opinion 0

According to National Family Health Survey 2018, 1 in 4 urban Indians skips breakfast almost daily, and 3 in 4 Indians eat unhealthy snacks or fast food for lunch at least twice a week. This can increase tiredness and stress at work, and makes it difficult to focus, apart from having long term health effects. For a professional in urban India, there are very few healthy and nutritious meal options. There are some new age restaurants that serve healthy salads. But these salads do not come cheap. The other problem…

KhaaliJeb: A payments app that woos students Part of the fintech startup incubation programme at NSRCEL, this venture, founded by IIIT Allahabad graduates, is youth-centric

August 28, 2020August 28, 2020 admin1 FEATURED News and events Opinion 0

KhaaliJeb is an app which makes payments and banking simple, fast and rewarding for youth and students. Live as a full-fledged UPI PSP app for over a year now and sponsored by Kotak Mahindra Bank, KhaaliJeb has a program where its users can avail discounts on brands catering to those below 29 years of age. “We have on-boarded 350+ restaurants and salons in Bangalore,” says Prakash Kumar, one of the founders, who currently handles ideation, product and design. How KhaaliJeb was born “It was the year 2015. I was in…

Over a cup of chai Chaika, an instant tea premix firm, part of the Launchpad program at NSRCEL, has used the lockdown to successfully pivot their business model

August 20, 2020August 21, 2020 admin1 FEATURED News and events Opinion 0

“The idea for Chaika started when we were working in Singapore, where we craved masala chai but didn’t know how to make it. Even when we tried, we failed! Moreover, the process took 15-20 minutes – we just didn’t have the time in the mornings. This craving made us quit our finance jobs to take the entrepreneurship route,” chuckles Aradhita Agarwal, Co-founder and graduate of Economics from the National University of Singapore. “We also realised that people were switching over, from masala chai, the beverage they grew up with, to…

“दो परिंदों के सवाल”

May 24, 2020May 24, 2020 Nilam Kaushik FEATURED Opinion 0

As we reel under the Coronavirus crisis with lives and livelihoods destroyed, I recently recited my poem “दो परिंदों के सवाल” at Harvard’s 24th Annual India Poetry Reading* over Zoom. The theme for this year was “Justice”. The poem personifies two birds that wonder whether humans regret the destruction to nature caused by their activities in the garb of modernization. The birds point out that while we may pride ourselves in developing machines and sophisticated technology to protect ourselves against nature’s fury, we stand so helpless in front of something…

IIM Bangalore: An unforgettable experience to cherish for life Challenging roles, a plethora of opportunities to learn and grow, and a long career with a lifetime of memories are some of the things Vedy A will take back as he retires from IIMB service

April 29, 2020 admin1 FEATURED Opinion 0

Before joining IIMB, I worked for ITI Ancillary Unit Pvt Ltd as Power Press Operator for about four years. In 1982, I got an opportunity to work for IIM Bangalore. Since then, my journey here has been a memorable one working her for the last 38 years. When I joined the Institute, I was posted in Hostel mess for five years, during which I worked 16 hours a day. Being new and unaware of the responsibilities the role entailed, I worked hard to understand the process and enjoyed working here.…

Decongesting Bengaluru: NSRCEL-incubated start-up shows the way

February 26, 2020February 27, 2020 admin1 FEATURED News and events Opinion 0

Incubated at IIM Bangalore’s NSRCEL, Series-5 Lab has launched a technology platform for Software Defined Marketing (SDM), a programmatic cloud-based platform to manage assets across all mass media, create TG specific next-generation experiences, run marketing campaigns and report real-time analytics with machine learning and artificial intelligence. The start-up has been working with the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC). In 2019, they launched BMTC Namma Pass, a digital ticketing facility for the Volvo Vajra service. So far, over 3000 passengers use this digital cashless mode of ticketing service, and the founders say…

(L-R) Shiva Jayagopal, Winvinaya Foundation, Prof. G. Raghuram, Director IIM Bangalore, and S.S. Jayasankar, Oorja Cochin, at the golden jubilee celebrations of Balavidyalaya, Chennai.

IIMB Director G. Raghuram speaks on ‘Experience of IIMB in making the courses inclusive’ during the golden jubilee celebrations of Chennai-based school Balavidyalaya

December 29, 2019December 31, 2019 admin1 FEATURED News and events Opinion 0

27 December, 2019, Bengaluru: Balavidyalaya, the Chennai-based school for young deaf children, hosted the international conference titled ‘Parenting Children to Listen from Infancy & Talk for a Lifetime’, on December 19 and 20, 2019, at the Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao Concert Hall, as part of its golden jubilee celebrations. The conference brought together policy makers, special educators, speech therapists, audiologists, doctors, psychologists, social workers and parents engaged or associated with deafness. A healthy interaction and exchange of information between professionals from different parts of the world during the conference threw…