→ February 13, 2010
Happy to announce that the project we started a few months ago is nearing successful completion! Project Why will receive its library in the 2nd week of March. Thanks to everyone who has supported this cause. Now to make it even better for the children at Project Why I have enabled the fund raising option on [...]
→ October 21, 2009
Twitter is at it again! As soon as we cross 4200, the number of followers will start falling automatically! In the last couple of weeks we have crossed 4200 at least 6 times. Guess, Twitter’s anti-spam mechanism comes into play. A bit too aggressive we think.
→ September 25, 2009
Been wondering for a while - How can some parents let a Rahul Mahajan judge their children on national Television? We often talk about the lack of real life heroes and role models, but is the situation so bad? Now think of this - There are NGOs like Project Why that work tirelessly to let children [...]
→ September 9, 2009
We are about to reach 2000 followers on Twitter! Thank you everyone for the support and helping us spread the word. Within a week of launch, OWOS has been featured in DNA Bangalore and popular Internet sites such as Killer Startups. Have also received messages and suggestions from so many of you. We will do our [...]
→ August 30, 2009
What a week it has been! Close to 350 people stepped forward to support the project. Received a few emails with some suggestions and good wishes. Shashi Tharoor and Guy Kawasaki told us their choice for The one book every child should read. Its Sunday 10:30 PM in India right now and we are trying to get [...]
→ August 19, 2009
One day the Hodja went to the well to draw some water. There he saw the moon’s reflection. Thinking it fallen into the well, he said, “I will have to pull it out immediately.” He took a rope with a hook fastened to one end and lowered it into the well. The hook caught on a [...]
→ August 14, 2009
So…the time has come to once again announce our plans, start our journey and take our ideas to the world. It is very easy the first time. But after having spent three years as a startup founder trying to make sense of the Indian education scene and after having seen some of the best ideas [...]
→ August 14, 2009
So what is the first OWOS book going to be about? Well…I have the details. The first title will be a collection of children stories from all over the world. You can think of it as The History and Story Book for every child of the world. It will contain sections on each country’s history, art [...]
