Real Life Heroes – by Manvi – Passionate about narrative storytelling and uses it as a medium to tell the 'why' behind every human.

Stop. Breathe. Reset. | SSMI Re-aligns Strategy, Adopts Digital Self-Reliance for More Impact

Series: The unconventional Women of SSMI After hand-wringing for a few years, SSMI is now taking significant steps toward digital transformation by including digital training, and media literacy programs in their employee development plan. While partially, this could be an after-effect of the recent encounter with COVID-19, the cascading effect of which led to an…

Bravehearts of SSMI: Two Women Tell Harrowing Accounts of Domestic Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence

Series: The unconventional Women of SSMI | Written by Manvi Pant Gender-based violence is one of the most notable human rights violations globally, prevalent across all socioeconomic strata. However, in India, violence against women and girls is more prominently seen in marginal communities. Despite having policies and interventions in place, we have, time and again,…

“We need a more humane approach to solve social problems” – Vijayluxmi Bhardwaj

Series: The unconventional Women of SSMI The social care system in India is very poorly understood. Most of us fail to recognize elements of it that are mentally and emotionally exhausting. Being a social worker means being at the forefront of overwhelmingly large problems that our society is plagued with – unemployment, poverty, access to…

“If you have worked so hard for yourself and come this far, why sit at home?”- Eram Jaffrey

Series: The unconventional Women of SSMI “Head straight, chin up! I tell myself every single day as I walk out of my house. It’s been ages, and I haven’t looked back because I foresee a bright future for myself and my family. The year was 2012. I was studying in 12th. One evening, Abbu came…

Serial entrepreneur Giresh Kulkarni on bridging the gap between temples and devotees in uncertain times

India, home to many Gods, has a robust devotional tenacity. Regardless of faith and religious affiliation, almost everyone has grown up watching their parents, grandparents offering prayers during festivals, celebrations, and other special occasions. These belief systems pass on from generation to generation. And so, sometimes, the values we imbibe from our parents or ancestors…

“At SSMI, each role demands ‘a different me’ to show up!” – Gurdeep Kaur

Series: The unconventional Women of SSMI Delhi-based Gurdeep Kaur has worked across an array of disciplines at Swami Sivananda Memorial Institute. From acting as an intermediary between teachers, parents, and school management to coordinating projects for the Gender Resource Center (GRC) and more, she has never shied away from looking beyond the horizon, taking risks,…

Sunita Bhasin on Closing the Gender Gap and Helping Marginalized Women Move Forward

Series: The unconventional Women of SSMI “Nervousness among men in the house when a woman steps out is one of the most common phenomena, I have noticed in all these years,” says the Director of Swami Sivananda Memorial Institute, Sunita Bhasin. For her finding means and ways to fight everyday challenges of the social sector and…

Designer Ginni Wadhwa on Breaking Monotony and Playing with Asymmetrical Hemlines!

“Why do people get dressed in a certain way? What refrains them from experimenting with their style? How can I show them a different version of themselves and create an experience of a lifetime for them?” That’s the kind of question Ginni Wadhwa asks herself every time she sits down with a measurement tape around her…

“Creativity helped me escape severe depression” – Anne Leuck

Chicago-based artist Anne Leuck calls herself a child of the ’70s, an era known for its bold sense of color and graphics. Grew up in Sparta, a small, idyllic, midwestern town in Wisconsin, Anne got intimately attached to the delights of color at home, where creativity spurred in little things since both her parents had…

“If you try to study yourself according to another, you will always remain a secondhand human being” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you have read Freedom from the Known (1969) by the enlightened mystic of the 20th century, the great philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti, you would know he was a man who questioned the conventional, authoritative and mechanical workings of the world. Born to an orthodox Brahmin Telugu family on May 11th 1895, in Madanapalle, a small town in…

Real Life Heroes – by Manvi

Sunita Bhasin on Closing the Gender Gap and Helping Marginalized Women Move Forward

Designer Ginni Wadhwa on Breaking Monotony and Playing with Asymmetrical Hemlines!

“Creativity helped me escape severe depression” – Anne Leuck

26 days on an oil tanker, and other experiments in Art

I was not afraid to stand out, says Vogue featured artist Olga Kamenetskaya

I was afraid imagining what would people think if they knew I had a bipolar disorder – Diana Chao

Stop. Breathe. Reset. | SSMI Re-aligns Strategy, Adopts Digital Self-Reliance for More Impact

Bravehearts of SSMI: Two Women Tell Harrowing Accounts of Domestic Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence

“If you have worked so hard for yourself and come this far, why sit at home?”- Eram Jaffrey

Serial entrepreneur Giresh Kulkarni on bridging the gap between temples and devotees in uncertain times

“At SSMI, each role demands ‘a different me’ to show up!” – Gurdeep Kaur

Sunita Bhasin on Closing the Gender Gap and Helping Marginalized Women Move Forward

Designer Ginni Wadhwa on Breaking Monotony and Playing with Asymmetrical Hemlines!

“Creativity helped me escape severe depression” – Anne Leuck

“If you try to study yourself according to another, you will always remain a secondhand human being” – Jiddu Krishnamurti