Social Sensitivity

SPJIMR's Abhyudaya: When a B-School Student Becomes A Mentor

Note: SPJIMR is the only B-School in India to launch a unique pedagogic mentoring programme called 'Abhyudaya'. Every SPartan has to mentor a bright, underprivileged kid in the first year of their MBA. This form of 'Experiential Learning' helps them get a more nuanced perspective of 'Bharat', and trains them not only to be better-equipped business leaders of tomorrow, but also better human beings. The following is a diary entry of one such SPartan (me!) on his first visit to his mentee's house.

Vismay Harani21 Aug 2015

Reimagining Human Trafficking

One can’t deny that globalization, despite its multifarious positive spill-over effects, has been instrumental in further widening the chasm of economic welfare between the rich and the poor in each country. This chasm has ushered in a retrograde dynamic involving an accelerated emigration of the poor to “greener pastures” per se, in search of more lucrative employment opportunities. However, with the more affluent economies tightening the avenues of influx, these immigrants have been rendered more susceptible to human trafficking. Despite having attracted a considerable share of attention in the global milieu over the past decade, human trafficking is popularly perceived as a heinous crime involving the relegation of women to rather perverse streams of revenue in the informal sector (for ex. prostitution), thereby depriving trafficked workers, regardless of gender, involved in non-sexual labour of requisite attention. Furthermore, the legal framework designed to mitigate trafficking primarily treats it as a savage crime where the offenders deserve punishment and the victims ought to be rehabilitated into the “mainstream”. Thus, one can clearly trace a conspicuous void in terms of addressing the precursors that lead to trafficking, while formulating policies and setting agendas.

Srinjoy Ganguly17 Aug 2015

Conscious Capitalism : Case Studies from Apple and Unilever

“If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near” – Jack Welch

Rajesh Srivastava06 Aug 2015

Mandi Trades App - How Technology Can Help Farmers

Technology is improving lives. But mainly of people residing in urban & semi urban areas. Not so much of people residing in rural areas.

Rajesh Srivastava26 Jul 2015

Pillion rides in Naxal Territory - Internship at TATA Trusts

“The summer heat is unbearable. At 45 degrees, the air itself seems to have taken on the magical property of suffocating humans in broad daylight. I curse myself for having opted out of the summer internship process of my college in order to spend two months in the social sector. As I hold on to the rear of the motor bike for dear life, the only person I can think of, strangely enough, is Heimdall, the guardian Sentry of Asgard in the Marvel Comics Universe. “Heimdall, beam me up from this godforsaken place!”, I utter a silent prayer.

Pranabjyoti Kalita13 Jul 2015

YES FOUNDATION Launches the 3rd Edition of YES! i am the CHANGE 101-Hour Social Filmmaking Challenge

YES FOUNDATION, the social development arm of YES BANK, India’s fifth largest private sector bank, has launched the third edition of its highly successful YES! i am the CHANGE 101- Hour Social Filmmaking Challenge. YES! i am the CHANGE, India’s largest social film movement is set to create history and become the world’s largest youth film movement with participation of a record 5 lakh youth pan-India.

Kishor Barua17 Jun 2015

Gangs of Sheopur Rural Diaries - GMC at Mahindra

For many students in B school it is probably a dream to get placed in a good company that pays well (I am wary of generalizations so for my entrepreneurial friends of B schools please condone my audacity to paint everyone with the same colour), gives you exciting work, keeps the learning curve high and empowers the employees to lead as well as get the satisfaction of completing projects where their decisions made a positive difference(there may be other reasons too but just mentioning a top few). Now this was the picture of my ideal company. As many of my friends would agree that the employer branding at B schools have reached stratospheric level where every other company, Indian or Foreign multi national have their own strategy of attracting the brightest and the best.

Soumya Sarkar26 May 2015

Because To Litter Is Human, To Clean: Divine

"Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness" Whoever said the above words, probably was too myopic to realize, hygiene could be best associated with just piety and nothing more tangible.

Abhishek Pal19 Mar 2015