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Namaste! We have a super humbling news to share with you. As you know, KnowYourStar started as a website to amplify stories of unsung heroes who are role models in our society. If somebody told us back then, that 5+ years down the line, one […]
“Opening our doors to those who take care of our neighborhood.” – read the card that we received from the Accor Hotels, inviting us to be a part of their 50th anniversary celebrations. What was a pleasant surprise is that apart from inviting us to […]
Namaste! The past week has been very eventful for us at KnowYourStar. From volunteering and co-anchoring the friend-raising dinner at the India Inclusion Summit 2017 to celebrating some milestone accomplishments on Children’s Day with our little champs, our wheels haven’t stopped rolling! We are loving the flow of these […]
Namaste! If you’ve been reading our blog posts, you will have noticed that around November, we start mentioning the India Inclusion Summit or IIS a lot. Though we aren’t a formal part of the IIS team, we’ve always admired and supported their journey in any way […]
Namaste! The celebration of love and light has been so wonderful. Exchanging gifts, wishes, sweets, phone calls, and hugs… who doesn’t like that!? We were overwhelmed by the choicest wishes and love you showered upon us. Talking about gifts, during the same time, we had […]
Namaste! Diwali is the most favorite festival for all of us at KnowYourStar. Of course, we love lights and are very happy to symbolically be reminded of our journey towards illuminating ourselves deep within; while bringing some light in the lives of those around us. […]
Namaste! Last Friday was a very special day for all of us. Why? Because we took our tent school kids on a field trip to the airport as part of the Daan Utsav – The Joy Of Giving Week. Thanks to the amazing folks at Daan Utsav, […]
Last Friday was a crazy day for the Mentor India brigade! Thanks to the amazing folks at Daan Utsav, we got a chance to celebrate the Joy Of Giving Week by taking our tent school kids on a field trip. Where to? A place where […]
Namaste! Last week, we wrote an email voicing our pain points with Jaideep’s story of his 15-month no-salary journey. Within a couple of hours, we received so many responses, and this shower of motivating messages has not ceased to drop into our inboxes even after a […]
Namaste! Our Thursday Emails started at the beginning of this year, and we have not missed writing to you even for a single Thursday ever since. We cultivated this practice to ensure that our work remains transparent and the evolution of KnowYourStar becomes a collective […]
Harshita Sheshgiri wrote this beautiful poem about her second experience at Volunesia where the kids modelled beautiful solar systems with clay after watching an animated video about the outer space! (This was first published on her Instagram profile.) — I saw her mould the clay […]
Namaste! All the best heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. — Gerard Way Most of us have grown up reading superhero comics and watching superhero cartoons; right from Spiderman and Batman to our very own Shaktimaan! When we asked our students at Paranga […]
