11 episodes old with the June one, Golmej has proved to be a platform of insightful discussions on a range of topics that affect us as common people. On Golmej, we don’t agree to disagree, we agree to discuss! Some experts have predicted that there will be a second industrial revolution in the near future….
The walls that divided journalists and news consumers are crumbling. Blogs, videos, social media posts, etc. now disseminate news too, isn’t it? Unlike in earlier times when news updates could be got only through the next day’s newspapers or inthe later times once it flashed on the television screen post editorial approval, news is now…
“Climate change is the defining issue of our time. We face a direct existential threat. Climate change is moving faster than we are – and its speed has provoked a sonic boom SOS across our world” said the United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres. We are given to understand that humans have very limited time…
OTT platforms are audio & video hosting and streaming services offered directly to viewers via the internet. They may have started out as content hosting platforms but now, they have ventured into the production and release of short movies, feature films, documentaries & web-series themselves.The most popular ones in India today are Netflix, Amazon Prime…
On Golmej, the discussion for December traced India’s development up till 2020: the target achievement year for Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam’s vision for a developed India. Even as participants acknowledged that India had come quite long a path, they outlined the need for targeted reforms and optimistic efforts to be able to deliver…
In this roller coaster of a year, 2020, when the world shifted online, Golmej was launched on Facebook to fill in for the need for our own platform for meaningful discussions. On Golmej, we exchange opinions and use facts and research to back them up. Here, we may agree or disagree but don’t conform to…
Can we Discuss Memes? Three episodes of Golmej have tackled three serious topics: India-China Conflict, Online Schooling, and Recreational drugs. The discussions have been lively, meaningful and the objective of Golmej as a platform is being revealed and enhanced every episode. However, a discussion cannot be limited to serious topics with strenuous data and tasking…
A Sobering Discussion On the Raving Issue. As is evident from the first two episodes, we at Golmej are taking up those issues and subjects for discussion and debate that would affect the society. We were brainstorming for topics. The ones we came up with were related to the dreaded virus. And a realization dawned…
Welcome to the world of Ordnyanic!! On 2 Oct 2020 Team Opash did an Online Launch its beloved project ‘Ordnyanic’!! Through pre-launch activities enough buzz around it was created and we were pleasantly surprised to see the response it was already getting! The launch was just a way of official announcement for being open to…
While the floods of misinformation and disinformation have been ravaging the vulnerable streets of our minds, Golmej came to show that the best town planners are we ourselves. So why not come together to discuss, debate and exchange ideas, identifying the wastes of fake news and propaganda and evolve a cleaning mechanism before they work…
Golmej 2020 Workplace colleagues have a tea break and a chai pe charcha on national news of the day. Friends’ hangouts often see jokes over how forwarded rumours become ‘news’ spreading like wildfire today. Social media keeps buzzing with newer trends, some trended by one group, others by another or some others. TV news channels…
Ordnyanic – wisdom of the soil… Ordnyanic is one of our silent but most loved project. The first time I visited this project was with my teammates who had been driving this project since its inception. A team had been working to and fro from office to client locations throughout the week when they sent the…
Kaleidoscope E Summer Camp 2020 – Bahrain We completed the Kaleidoscope India Camp successfully online in May 2020 this year. The amazing energy and feedback we got from this camp helped us open our wings and soar. And soar we did by going global for the first time. The journey started when few parents who…
Kaleidoscope 2020 Keeping in line with our summer camp spirit we successfully conducted another summer camp this year. You may wonder what is so special about this camp? Do I really need to read about some children camp? So the answer to this is yes because this wasn’t just a camp. It was a whole…
Woman’s day was first observed in the early 1900’s in Europe. It was a culmination of various women’s movements against gender bias at work, at home and in society in general. Women were fighting for their basic rights to live with dignity as human beings. Fast forward to 2020 and we realize so much has…
SOCIAL IMPACT TOUR (19 -24 NOV 2019) Anandwan, Hemalkasa, Somnath Today’s urban youth is engaged in a systematically chaotic but very convenient life, in the pursuit of a life with ease we don’t opt for the path of hardship. The desire for a material lifestyle comes at a cost of us distancing ourselves from our ‘spiritual existence’,…
POSH act (prevention of sexual harassment of women at workplace) is an important law passed by Indian parliament in 2013. The Bill lays down the definition of sexual harassment and seeks to provide a mechanism for redressing complaints. It is very need of time to spread awareness about this law in working women irrespective of the…
The field of development has two competent stakeholders; the government and NGO sector. Both, with their unique qualities and ways of contribution, are leading their way into the domain. It is this uniqueness that makes the question of “which one is better?” more difficult and complicated to answer. While bureaucracy often has the risk of…
Better access to education and employment has enabled more women to join the workforce in comparison with earlier decades. Demand for gender diversity as a compliance and one of the prerequisites for off shore collaborations has given a push to gender equality and inclusion at workspaces. However, we are still far from achieving gender equality…
Opash conducts tours to renowned social projects such as Hiware Bazar, Anandwan-Hemalkasa-Somnath, etc. that have transformed the lives of many individuals and families and serve as benchmark of social innovation and change. These tours are conducted primarily for school and college students, but are open to everyone who wishes to contribute or is eager to…
The Genesis of an Idea After a few years of working in a corporate sales job, I was yearning to do something more meaningful with my life. One rainy day, while driving from Fergusson college road to Hinjewadi for a sales consignment I noticed a peculiar site: a little boy clad in a small pair…