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 showcase panelists who have pre-sealed their views and thereby of their respective followers. Different newspapers find themse
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 office team pictures of tiny methi blooms. This was our prototyping site and all of us had been eagerly waiting for these babies to sprout. It was se
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 had heard of our India camp were mighty impressed and started enquiring if something similar can be done for their children staying abroad. Bahrain
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 new experience and a whole new learning curve in itself. See if you can a happy kaleidoscope in here.
When India locked down and sealed all its borders comp
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 changed for women and also for the world around them. Those initial struggles and sacrifices of thousands of unknown women lead to a slow movement which ha...
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', we push ourselves away from socialism and the very roots of our modern existence. As Murlidhar Devidas Amte, commonly
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 slow decision making along with possibilities when the real beneficiaries are left out of the picture, the corruptio
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 know about social projects.
Objective of the Tours:
The youth of the cities are unable to relate
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 of shorts would stand near the exhaust of vehicles that stopped at red traffic light in the heavy rains. While it is common to see people beg on traffic signals, thi
