Tamanna Mohapatra

At first these three terms may seem vaguely related but I will try to connect them in a meaningful way as well as show their importance...

Call it a bucket list, things to do before you die or just plain whimsical..whatever the reason, I decided that as someone who loves the...

I went to volunteer at the Jewish Home Life care facility on 106th and Broadway one very hot summer morning. I wasn’t sure what to expect...

The title of this blog is my attempt at being creative; a very honest yet lame attempt :-( It all started when I visited the Japan...

SUMASA is the name of the volunteer student organization that’s part of the MS in Sustainability Management at Columbia University (where...

Almost every year; my girl friend Jenny and I get together on both our birthdays or at least either of our birthdays. This year, my...

I owe this blog to a work friend of mine who lent me this really short but amazing book to read. It all started over a hallway...

Hurricane Sandy has done me a favor by keeping me at home and allowing to work on my ‘to do list’ which includes uploading pics from...

Colin Beaven was the moderator of the event; considered by MSNBC as one of the 10 most influential men. He’s most widely known for the...

I had read an excerpt of ‘This is a book’ in some magazine a while ago and had decided then that I would read this book some day. It was...

NYC is so great; almost all avenues has a beautiful museum tucked away somewhere. This one I had to visit before end of the year because...

I had read about the newly renovated NY Historical Society in the WSJ. This line is what inspired me to visit it as part of my NY museum...

I know at first, it doesn’t look like Iceland has much to do with green and environment, but, contrary to popular belief; Iceland is very...

Hidden in the upper east (at least to my eyes) is a jewel of a museum.  I pride myself to being a very secular person even though I have...

It took me a really long time to finish this book but I am glad I did. It wasn’t very heavy reading but certainly not the kind you can’t...

The New York Botanical Garden ( NYBG ) is one of the premier botanical gardens in the United States , located in the Bronx in New York...

As part of our bi-monthly net impact meeting we decided to offer a tour of the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement right at the heart of where...

I live in NYC now. It’s a wonderful city and if you haven’t seen the rest of the world or have no desire to do so..this city can really...

I am not sure how I learnt about Michael Pollan, but I think it’s been about 2 years or so that I have come to know and read about his...

This book came to me through recommended reading for a NYU course on East Asian and Latin American economy success stories. It’s an...