Letters To Our Friends

Letter #8: Patience Is Mostly A Virtue, Right?

Dear Friend of Ashaya,

An interesting little incident happened with Jayashri, our informal worker.

Wide-eyed and usually with a wide smile, Jayashri works part-time with us. She leads the pre-processing processes at Ashaya of washing and shredding plastic packets, and sometimes even dabbles in some of the more complex processes like filtration

By |2022-08-18T18:34:16+05:30August 18th, 2022|

Letter #6: A Numbers Game

Dear Friend of Ashaya,

Just as we started inching towards some sort of normal, the northeast part of the world had other ideas.

I would love to just dive in but it’s thoroughly disheartening when we still live in a world where large-scale invasions are a thing. It puts the concept of

By |2022-02-27T12:14:35+05:30February 27th, 2022|

Letter #5: Humans, Machines & Control

Dear Friend of Ashaya,

Where do I even start?

The last three months have been a whirlwind – like other earlier whirlwinds, but maybe with an increased velocity that makes flying by the seat of my pants more real than metaphorical.

Let’s start with people.

While

By |2021-11-25T16:21:22+05:30November 25th, 2021|

Letter #4: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Dear Friend of Ashaya,

Everything isn’t always hunky-dory, especially in the start-up world. And we know this, but when you see it happening in slow motion, it’s quite daunting.

So far, we had really ridden our luck, making swift progress where it mattered – early breakthroughs, validated direction, and some sort of

By |2021-08-03T08:12:26+05:30August 2nd, 2021|
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