“Allow your passion to become your purpose and it will one day become your profession.” -Gabriella Bernstein This quote by Gabriella Bernstein beautifully embodies our Margshala alumna Tanuja who is currently in her final year, Read more…
Being an entrepreneur is full of challenges but is equally rewarding, especially for Devendra. Hailing from Pithoragarh, Devendra is an entrepreneur who started his own company – Creative Inventors which designs websites and is the Read more…
Entrepreneurship has its own thrills. For Harish, entrepreneurship implies long-term stability. India and Bharat Together’s Margshala program was designed originally for the youth of Pithoragarh to get exposure to various career options. Young people today Read more…
India and Bharat Together’s Margshala was born out of the idea of transforming opportunities to Indian rural youth. Rural and small-town youth need exposure to improve their awareness about livelihood choices and opportunities available to Read more…
While Margshala continued, Kishore also started getting into his trekking venture, motivated by his own passion and Margshala mentors. The lockdown has devastated and transformed lives, but it could not destroy dreams and hopes. Kishore has also started renting out a vehicle for tourist expeditions. His entrepreneurial nature has motivated him to expand his venture and realize that dreams can come true for the mountain youth.
It was the plight of the handloom weavers of Himachal who had begun losing market access and income that inspired Kiran Thakur to come up with HimalayanKraft. HimalayanKraft is an e-commerce venture based in Himachal and neighbouring states and directly involves the weavers.
On Sunday, 26th of July, 2020, we had our team member and youth mentor, Purabi Sarkar, who has worked in the hills for a long time, speaking to the young students of Margshala. Her talk aimed at providing the Margshala youth with information about various livelihood opportunities in the hills and how life in the hills can be bettered despite its challenges.
Buying packaged food items like Soan Papdi, Gajak or Gur Patti from multinational or national companies has always been a norm for us, we have grown up doing that. But won’t it be amazing if a local company that you trust starts producing them and you know it is of good quality?
This is the narrative of Seema Prasad from Mysuru, Karnataka who has effectively figured out how to diminish the use of plastic from our everyday life. Her response to plastic is the inconceivable bottle gourd.
This is the story of family friends Tanya Kotnala and Tanya Singh, who have done some incredible work for preserving, conserving, and promoting local art, culture, and cuisine in Uttarakhand through their enterprise Bhuli.
