How a UPenn Graduate is Empowering the Untapped Potential of India
“The future of India lies in its villages.” This famous quote by Mahatma Gandhi is being threatened today with India looking towards a shining future in its cities and skyscrapers. However Zubin Sharma, a 24 year-old graduate of University of Pennsylvania, took Gandhi’s words to heart. After starting an organization …
#GharWaliDiwali: Pepsi Commercial Reminds Us What Diwali Is Really About
In the busy pace of life, it is important to stop and appreciate your parents for all their love and support, and what better time to do that than Diwali! Pepsi India made us tear up with this beautiful commercial on the importance of a #GharWaliDiwali!
Let's Celebrate Diwali Without Hurting the Environment
Introduction Recently, Delhi based Director & Cinematographer Gurmeet Sapal and Sehaj Singh followed the recent trend of picture captions to create a “Green Diwali” campaign. Some of the submissions were great advice for celebrating the holiday without hurting the environment, and one common suggestion was to avoid using crackers to celebrate …
Freedom from Darkness: A Village in Bihar Powers Itself With Solar Energy
Introduction Dharnai is a small village in Bihar (one of India’s poorest states) and has been unable to get government provided electricity for over 30 years. Greenpeace India has recently solved their problem to help power the village using solar energy! The Problem According to the organization, small shops in …
5 Reasons India's Mars Mission Is Actually Morally Wrong
The media has been infatuated the past couple days over India’s recent Mars mission. Most domestic journalists are taking a very positive stance on the mission, and most foreign journalists are criticizing India for its space program. The FirstPost republished a piece they had published when the Mars mission was originally …
Farhan Akhtar's Empowering Song About Women's Empowerment through Internet
Farhan Akhtar’s organization MARD, which works to empower women through the Internet, partnered with Google to produce this amazing video! This isn’t the first time Google has worked on computer literacy for women India, it also runs the Help Women Get Online Campaign. This song’s title means “Reach for The Sky” …
Go To Hell Times of India: Deepika's Fantastic Reply and TOI's Sexist One
Times of India has hit a new rock bottom. They have proven that India is still a “man’s world” and that the basic respect that women deserve is no where to be found. Last week, the Times of India twitter account posted a picture of Deepika Padukone with “her cleavage …
BJP Objects to Equality for Third Gender
The BJP is starting to undo the equality that was barely achieved for the substantial portion of the Indian population that identifies with the third gender. In April, India’s Supreme Court ruled that the third gender would be recognized by the government. Although this didn’t do much to tackle the …
The Value of One Bucket of Water
It’s amazing and sad how much polarity is in the world when it comes to appreciating water. This video does a fantastic job of portraying those poles. It sometimes becomes easy to take simple things for granted, but videos like this do a great job of humbling us to the worlds problems.
Parineeti Chopra Shuts Down Misogynist
Bollywood Actress Parineeti Chopra won’t stand for the stupid argument that women just start to despise sex and call it rape for that reason. It’s important for more actors and actresses to take stances like this to help crush these ignorant comments.
