Ashwidea, Author at Ashwidea

Published On - February 7, 2019

Ashwidea green office, recycled, sustainability

Folder from Poop

What’s big deal with folder. Well its great to keep documents. Brochures you get during a conference. Also if you feel like having fun , put some paper clips over it and get creative. The best part is you can keep using it till it tears , so has a very high reusable element. What […]...

Published On - February 4, 2019

Ashwidea health

9.6 Million cancer deaths a year

Cancer. Yup it has captured attention of Indians . It has also been subject of many true fake whatsapp messages. Fortunately it is not 1971 when the Iconic Hindi movie Anand about Cancer patient who rises above his disease and spreads happiness . In that Anand suffered and died of it .I will bet you...

Published On - January 29, 2019

Ashwidea health, sustainabilityTags: csr, environment, sustainability, waste

Smiles,Garbage et al

Smiles , more smiles which greets me. I am in main X road at Naubad in Bidar. It is 700kms from Bangalore , takes a 14 hr train journey from my luru. (train stops almost an hour at Vikarabad to change direction of engine, while you can enjoy hot idli and wada). It is about 315 […]...

Published On - January 24, 2019

Ashwidea green office, recycled, sustainability, weddingTags: wedding

weddings, waste & recycling

Weddings in our country can be exercises in excess (definition of excess may change in light of high profile weddings recently). While everyone wants to celebrate their weddings in their own way ( and no qualms about it , its your money or your parents money). However the materials used for decorati...

Published On - January 9, 2019

Ashwidea recycled, sustainability

Small is beautiful and recycled

We have been providing conferences and offices with recycled, sustainable stationary over the past year. While these are typically orders of range of multiples of 100s. In these cases we customize the notebooks, pencils etc with company logo . Recently we managed to complete order for custom noteboo...

Published On - December 28, 2018

Ashwidea education, green office, recycled

2018:Waste,Recycled,Running,Education

2018 is/was? year 1 for us at Ashwidea. Today being one of the last few days of 2018 , its good time to recap on how the year has been. I don’t have star rating system unlike Rajeev masand or anupama chopra , but will try giving you a snapshot of how it went. Waste […]...

Published On - December 27, 2018

Ashwidea green office, recycled, sustainability

Brown or White

You may have observed that notebooks in our Green office portfolio are brown shade unlike the notebooks you usually encounter. The brown colour is natural colour of recycled paper from which these notebooks are made. The white paper which you use regularly, takes many cycles of bleaching,polishing t...

Published On - December 26, 2018

Ashwidea education, sportsTags: education, sports

Football for life(skills)

This december is a very important month in Indian sports calendar. IPL auctions got over making the usual headlines for turning teenagers into crorepatis and providing them launch pad. Advent of sports leagues augurs well for our country which is usual obsessed with Class X, XII marks. While it is a...

Published On - December 19, 2018

Ashwidea UncategorizedTags: education, sanitation

What do I do first in Education ?

Education gets top priority when it comes to CSR, Govt or foundations. It should also, after all its what will shape our nation. Someone who wants to invest in education itself will have their hands full with a multitude of problems to address. We are working on such interventions in Bangalore with ...

Published On - December 14, 2018

Ashwidea healthTags: health, volunteering

Volunteering for health

I have been talking about projects which are creating social impact in various ways. These projects typically need funds to keep the good work going. While funds are critical , as part of Blended choices we offer organisations. This includes a good dose of volunteering. This one is from a very innov...

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