** Paying it forward

They are now the Humankind Global, and have launched a mega campaign of documenting over 1 billion stories of kindness, assistance and humanity.

On March 18 last year, when the pandemic was setting in, a group of volunteers,
coordinated by Mahita Nagaraj in Bengaluru, started networking and helping people in need.

Initially known as Caremongerers India, Nagaraj’s team with more than 55,000 online volunteers, took over the mission to reach out to those in need during the Covid-19 crisis. A year later, the team is celebrating its first anniversary with a new name and new agenda.

** A portal for film archives

It is a passion project of film journalist Shashidhar Chitradurga.
To this day, there is a gap in documenting and archiving the history of Kannada cinema in an accessible way, which a new online portal — chitrapatha.com — aims to fill.

The portal, designed with fonts from yesteryear film posters, is drenched in nostalgia for old films, songs, their history, trivia, and rare-to-find photographs.