7 million people die of air pollution every year. 844 million people around the world lack basic drinking water access.  These numbers are only going to get worse as we progress to a more technologically advanced world. For the future of Earth and the future of our children, we need to [...]

College years can be a difficult time for students as they juggle academic pressure, family expectations and competition with other students. They face decisions that can have lifelong consequences. Often, they are in a new environment away from their support networks and have no-one to share [...]

I was born into a family that likes to recognise itself as upper middle class. An upper middle-class household is one where there is enough and not enough at the same time! My parents brought me up in abundance; however, there was always an adjoining lesson of the ‘value of money’ [...]

#PlasticWala Before we can effectively and collectively curb the menace of plastic use, it is important to understand the complexity of plastics we are all using! The first step in this process is to identify the type of plastic and understand whether or not it is safe for use! Moreover, if the [...]

Plastic. Who can escape the ever expanding tentacles of this demon? It’s everywhere around us and aren’t we all just tired of listening to the same old voice asking us to stop using plastic? We are so tired that we’ve become ignorant. We have shut our eyes hoping that on the day we open them, [...]

#PollutionWala In late January, the 2018 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) was published. It was put together by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. Now in its twentieth year, the report is highly detailed, extremely thorough and is [...]

How many times as kids did we experience the utter pleasure of buying new clothes on festivals and certain occasions in a year. Nowadays, the sense of satisfaction is driven not by the necessity of clothes but by perceived season sales established by fashion magnates. Most of the fashion world [...]

Whenever I do not have screens to distract me, I get this compulsion to read everything that I can get my hands on. Whether it is me sitting on a toilet seat and reading information on soap bottles or  on my breakfast table staring at the jar of chocolate spread; there is this one recurring [...]

Whenever I am dealing with municipal solid waste management related issues, waste reduction is my topmost strategic approach. Particularly, waste that is easily avoidable and most harmful for the environment. Plastic bottles fall in this category and consumers are generally unaware of their [...]

Have you ever made the choice of picking an antibacterial soap over any regular soap because it seems safer? Have you ever come across a media message on the magical benefits of a soap that kills all the germs? In most probability you have! So are these soaps really better or even more harmful [...]