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How does a company that has spent 25 yrs only looking at the benefit of others and not promoting itself much, celebrate its 25th birthday?  By thinking of more ways of being use to others now.      The Green Economy India web portal was launched through the simple act of sharing the same with our friends and network partners on the 25th anniversary.  The portal brings together one of the largest group of practitioners from diverse backgrounds, convinced about the need to make the economy green. It will offer courses to colleges, universities and academic…
Friends, It is 14th Aug 1998. We had decided on the title of the new consulting company we were going to start and wanted to announce it to the world. The 15th of Aug that year was a weekend and we were travelling with family. Samanvaya was born through the act of printing 25 copies of the newsletter that we edited in a DTP centre and posting it to all these people. We posted it from the Alwarpet post office in Chennai and drove back home to Madhavaram in scooter. As I sit today in far away America in the early morning hours of 14th Aug, these are my memories of that day. Our aspiration…
We at Samanvaya will be taking this challenge on the #WorldLocalisationDay . Will You?? Eat a Meal that is locally produced, unpacked and unbranded...preferably over a friendly conversation with the local vendor / farmer and discuss quality and nutrition of food. Tag World Localisation Day page with your experience. maybe also a photo. Or just write what is Local Food experience according to you. Let's make a difference to our consumption through reduction of FoodMiles and ensuring we support Localmarkets 
  Director, Samanvaya will be giving a talk on Entrepreneurship in Pharmacognosy on 21st June 2023 at the Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai.                         The presentation made to the students is available here 
Friends,   Last couple of years we have had a year-end online session as a way of sharing and building hope. This year too, there is an interest and few friends feel it may be safer and saner to celebrate the new year eve online at home than go around the town screaming and spending. While during the pandemic time, such online event gathered a lot of elders and youngsters together to share their hope and promises, this time we left it open for any one join. One of the early engagements of this year will see me deliver a lecture on Knowledge Swaraj end of January in the 46th Indian…
Ramasubramanian, Director Samanvaya will be giving a Plenary Lecture on the 31st Jan 2023 at the 46th Indian Social Science Congress in the  Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli. He will be giving the lecture under the title Knowledge Swaraj. The lecture will also be published as part of the publication of the Congress. More details regarding the event available here