As the brand begins its new innings, a look at the extraordinary journey of the shop and its founder It all started with a table in a sari shop in Edappally, in Kerala’s Kochi, in 1980. Back then, Annu Jose, founder of Tara Baby Shop, was a married woman in her mid-twenties, with a newborn …
A decade ago, the world got together and decided to fix the climate crisis by adopting the Paris Agreement. I remember it like yesterday. This was December 2015 at the UN climate talks in Paris. I was standing in front of a CNN camera as the news came through an earpiece: Nearly every country on …
To qualify, candidates must be persons with benchmark disabilities working on consolidated pay, daily wages, or other non-permanent arrangements. The Department for the Welfare of Differently Abled Persons has issued a Government Order offering weightage marks in recruitment exams to persons with benchmark disabilities (PwBDs) working temporarily in non-sanctioned Group C and D posts. The …
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A community group dedicated to reducing waste said the popularity of its “swap shop” events is increasing. Sustainable Devizes first held a Devizes Swap Shop in 2022 from a small stand in the town’s market place, with a couple of tables of books and toys. The event, which is now held at least three times …
Last April, my guests and I prepared to leave the wild embrace of Xigera, a living art gallery in Botswana’s Okavango Delta. This is where we hosted Roar Africa’s fifth Women’s Empowerment Retreat. As we prepared to readjust to the clamor of city life back home, one guest uttered a sentence that stopped me in my tracks: “Empowerment begins …
