Responsible Stars

After the success of Phase 1 of the MTV Nishedh campaign that reached over 10 million people across India, Viacom18 and MTV Staying Alive Foundation, supported by an educational grant from Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc., are all set to bring a digital-only miniseries MTV Nishedh Alone Together, revolving around Tuberculosis (TB). TB in the...

PNB MetLife Insurance along with its NGO partner - Child Rights and You (CRY), hosted an interactive chat session ahead of Children's Day for over 150 children with PV Sindhu, Olympic Medallist and the brand ambassador of PNB MetLife and U. Vimal Kumar, international badminton player, coach and the founder of Prakash Padukone Sports...

Taking cognizance of the rising issues surrounding mental wellness in the country, Mpower Founder and Chairperson Neerja Birla and Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan have come together to address these concerns. In a freewheeling conversation, which was released on Mpower’s YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram pages, the two leaders touched upon the harsh realities of mental health,...

Biodiversity By The Bay is a festival of music, art and comedy to raise awareness around climate issues and celebrate Mumbai’s diverse ecosystem. The three-week festival is organised by the Ministry of Mumbai’s Magic and DeadAnt and is split into three sections of music, art and comedy. DeadAnt is India’s only entertainment, news, and new-media...

Dance is a universal language, a form of expression which always brings people together. URLife.co.in (a holistic wellbeing platform), in collaboration with Mana Ooru Mana Badyatha (Surya Kala Moturi’s community welfare platform), are coming together to give recognition to India’s most gifted dancers through digital talent show, Heal URlife through Dance. Famous personalities from the...

Together, we can surmount any crisis – including a global pandemic. This is the underlying message of nonprofit organization Population Foundation of India’s new campaign that is trying to put some cheer back in people’s lives. The CSR Journal spoke to Poonam Muttreja, Executive Director, Population Foundation of India (PFI) and two-time National Award-winning filmmaker...

More than 20 works of art created by children living in extreme poverty in Mumbai, will go on sale on October 12 as part of “Beauty Without Boundaries 2020,” an inaugural online charity auction sponsored by Artrepreneur, the Aseema Charitable Trust in India and Friends of Aseema. The child artists range in age from 10...

Welspun India Limited, the global leaders of home textiles, aims to employ 500-600 migrant workers that were displaced due to the pandemic. With an objective to generate employment opportunities and continued livelihood for them, the company has collaborated with Pravasi Rojgar Yojana - an initiative by Bollywood actor and philanthropist Sonu Sood to provide...

All the talk of the perils of social media aside, there is goodness to be found on it, once in a blue moon. Those good stories, few and far between, are driven by people owning up to their citizen social responsibility in the most unexpected places. One such is the little #BabaKaDhaba food stall...

In the lead-up to World Mental Health Day 2020, we are looking at Bollywood celebs talking #mentalhealth. These are people from the entertainment industry who have opened up about their own mental health issues and, in the process, widened the conversation about this topic to the masses. Famous Bollywood celebs talking #mentalhealth These personalities have, knowingly...

Human beings are celebrating World Animal Day 2020 on October 4. For the rest of the living beings on the planet though, isn't every day animal day? Homo sapiens would be quite a self-centred species to believe that only we were born to own the land and plunder natural resources with no concern for...

The current situation with COVID-19 has led to a lockdown and cancellation of all live shows. This crisis has put the industry workers; ranging from sound engineers to tentwaalas as well as the folk artists at great financial risk. It has put on pause over 10 million jobs in the Indian event industry, thereby...