Category: Stories

While the cafe culture is mushrooming in India and there are well-designed, modern, and even unique themed cafes especially in the metro cities, there are some cafes that are doubling up as hubs for social awareness and change. Not only do they serve up a cup of coffee and delicious fare for the foodie, but they seek to evoke your conscience, and act as focal points to create awareness and support many social initiatives. A visit to these cafes can only not be humbling and perspective giving, but are highly recommended to understand and support the owners in their noble causes.

Cisco has been encouraging its employees to reduce paper wastage and bring their own bottles and mugs to the office. As a result, employees have been using ceramic mugs for water and beverages instead of using paper cups. This small change has had a huge impact in the Bengaluru office alone. Upto 900,000 paper cups have been saved in a month.

A working mother with a kid no older than 4 years is forced to be office and perform her duties even if the child is gravely ill, instead of being back home to take care of her son who can be given due rest, comfort, and medical attention in such a time. This post brings to light the plight of hundreds and thousands of working mothers in India who continue to work, while trying to juggle their domestic duties and support for their children.

Every year, the 30 odd male employees of PrimaDonna, a lingerie company specialising in large sizes, get to experience having large breasts, especially size D and E cup sizes. This is made possible by a special contraption made for this purpose that weighs as much as a size E cup (Upto 1.5 kgs) and strapped on to the participating employees. That whole day the employees keep the harness on, feeling what it’s like to be large-breasted woman, along with all its problems and issues.