Sandhya Raju

For the generation that went to school in the late 80's , skill development may not be a new term. At least for me, am able to relate to this all new buzz word, quite instantly. Rewinding to the school days, I remember we used to have one dedicated period a week called SUPW - Socially Useful Productive Work. We had the options to choose from carpentry to plumbing ; embroidery to various other art and craft work. It used to be more of  fun coupled with learning and a period we used to look forward to relax.  But sadly, the race for engineering and other professional courses diluted the need to carry further such skill based learning. Down the line, as the education system started aping westernisation, we have lost track of some of the basic skills that the school prepared us for. Today schools are more like factories producing ranks than imbibing conceptual learning or values that are essential. The plight of the colleges/ universities need no...

Reproducing the content that I wrote sometime back for one of the online property portal..... -- Much like the e-commerce, online realty portals is gaining a lot of traction with competition extremely heating up and portals trying to stay afloat with constant innovation.   For instance, when the Chennai based IndiaProperty.com announced the 3D interactive Virtual Property tour, commonfloor quickly followed suit. While the features and apps might not be much of a differential factor, what would probably put a portal in the lead position is the number of projects that they are able to list under any new feature. It is after all a number game here too. Realty portals are also quick movers in using technology. While the debate on the use of drones for commercial use will sooner or later gain momentum, online realty portals like IndiaProperty.com have already been putting drones to good use for video reviews of listed projects. Using drone cameras, one can...

For long I used to avoid having green tea at any of the coffee/client meetings that I have, for some reason I had an aversion towards it when I tasted it once just for the heck of it. the bitter taste did not interest me much, until one fine day I had an opportunity to host the Glendale Green tea launch in the city.  Most of the people who consume green tea either have it for health reasons or for making a statement. But how authentic is your green tea? How many of us do really know how to make an authentic green tea?? Gets you interesting.. Read on..... The green leaf of tea plant is highly oxidative, meaning it absorbs oxygen very fast and change its chemical constituent. When the tea leaves are subject to Oxidation the tea becomes Black tea which gives Reddish brown liquor with aroma of Tea. Whereas if we arrest the oxidation process of the tea leaves by a process called ‘Fixation Process” the colour of the tea leaves remain green and we get green tea. Since the oxid...