Color me Red!

The light in the most favorite corner of your house can determine something more about you. Researchers say that the type of color you prefer can determine some aspects of your personality.

If you love RED or white walls, lit up with red lights, you are an action oriented and you experience life through your five senses.

An orange lamp in the corner of your room tells us you have one too many parties. It shows a clear need to socialize more and take up more challenges.

If you love going mellow with yellow, it just means that method is your madness. You are systematic and love order in everything you do or involves you. Going green has nothing to do with envy, but tells you that you have a huge need to be loved and accepted by all. You need some acknowledgment in your life, the key word is some. A mere ‘thank you’ is more than enough to set you rolling.

Lovers of blue need inner peace and have an urge to find themselves. They love living their life in their own terms without altering much. A Pink lit wall tells your friends that you have deep need to be accepted and loved unconditionally. Golden lights and we know you radiate charisma, personality and individuality... ready to charm people each day. Intuition and insightful are your personality characteristics if silver lights flicker in your temple. Why temple, obviously because you have a stronger connection with the spiritual world.

So what is does the light in your room say about you? Tell us in the comments section below.

SOCIALLY ‘ENLIGHTENED’ STREETS

We left late from work on one Friday last week. The feeling of a win was brewing in the car. An important assignment got completed; we were applauded for our work, and the weekend was waiting for us. As the car turned into a quite lane before my building, we saw the streetlights were off. The upset tumble evolved from how bad the infrastructure is to the social benefits of street lighting.

As we all agree, street lighting creates navigable & safe. In most people's minds, offenders or potential victims, there is a simple and direct relationship between lighting and crime. The better the lighting, the lower the possibility of crime. Offenders benefit from the cover of darkness and good street lighting exposes them. Improved lighting means that offenders are more likely to be seen by someone who might intervene, call the police, or recognize the offender. Even if this does not happen, some offenders who fear that it might would be deterred from crime.

Improved lighting deters potential offenders by increasing the risk that they will be seen or recognized when committing crimes, which eventually leads them to back off from the area of crime. Police & potential saviours become more visible, thus leading to a decision to desist from crime. If improved lighting leads to the arrest and imprisonment of offenders they can no longer commit crimes in the area and also deters others from committing the crime due to the fear of being punished. New lighting can encourage residents to spend more time on the roads or yards in the evenings and thus increase informal surveillance.

As we reached the safety of our houses, the discussion moved to how something as simple as street lights are a part of a safe social society. While, we got the topic for our next blog, it also got us thinking on how to egg the local authorities to make it mandate to have good street lighting to effectively make our streets safer.

These will ‘Light Up’ your lives...

We were sitting and discussing our next blog topics when suddenly one of the team members got very philosophical. “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” he quoted Plato. What initially got welcomed with chuckles and ‘ho-hums’, eventually led to a series of sayings around the word light. We selected the top five quotes that came out of our ‘jamming’ and have compiled it below. We thought it would be a good break in our blogs. Hope you like it as much as we did while creating it... Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to light up your lives. :)

a. “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” 

― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

True isn’t it. It’s fascinating when science meets philosophy. One gets to witness the analytical mind getting blown away by the more fluid avatar of the creative, realistic one. While speed and light go hand in hand, the irony of darkness reaching their before the light strengthens the purpose of the mighty light.

b. “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

We were itching to add a product bit here, but refrained from it. :) Don’t we all carry that one thing with us, which we look at or use as we start losing hope, as the hands that had lent their hands of support slowly withdraw back.

c. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

The light within, has always been a common usage. But the above line creates a sense of personification and makes the man, light himself.

d. “There is a crack in everything.

That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

We loved this one. Calling out to all the crazy, the misfits to tell them that it’s that little crack in their heads that gets spotted out by all, that gives them the enlightened perspective to life.

e. “Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.”
― Walt Whitman 

Wisdom beyond the ordinary, as Walt Whitman calls out for people to look within and look amongst them for humanity to move beyond.

As we selected the top 5 quotes, we strengthened our belief in the concept of light and its effect on us. One cannot fathom a life without light, in its real pure form. But light in its philosophical form teaches us lesson, at par at what we learn sitting under it.

The lights are fancy... and so are you...

Fancy lights attract everyone. Long gone are those days where a flat white or yellow light filled up our rooms. People are getting adventurous. From different colors, to types to environment, they are using light in all different forms. Here are a few very interesting ways in which you could decorate using lights. 

Note: please be careful where you put them, keep them away from kids, ensure live wires and not open.

1. Take a huge oversized mirror and sprinkle it with basic white light and you would feel like a celeb in their vanity van (Image: Design*Sponge)

2. Take some strands of different color lights and put them in an empty jam or glass pickle jar... You would be amazed at how that boring jar converts into something special (Photo: Chiot’s Run)

3. If you have a garden and the garden has some trees, then wrap the trunk with lights and switch it on in the night... Grab a chair and sit under that tree and you would reach your favourite holiday destination.

4. Create this for your kids if they love fairy tales. Paint a tree on their wall and stick string lights with transparent adhesives. Light it in the night for them to create a story of their own. (wesleephere.tumblr.com)

5. Empty wine bottles are useful too. Take them, strap with ribbon and stuff led lights right in... and there you have your new night lamp. (Image Courtesy: Flor)

So if you have more such ideas about decorating your house with lights, leave it here in the comments section. 

Mahindra Powerol celebrates Mahindra Sustainability Month by planting 50,000 saplings across India and Overseas

Esops leader Mr. Palaniappan planting 

sapling in Bangalore

June ‘14: In support of Mahindra’s Sustainability Month and World Environment Day, Mahindra Powerol launched its Sustainability Initiative ‘Powerol Green Team’. ‘Powerol Green Team’ is a group of Powerol employees who have pledged to raise their voice against climate change and participate in the various sustainability driven activities conducted in Powerol, the chief being the Mega Plantation Drive across India and Overseas. Over 200 Powerol employees across India are part of the Mega Plantation Drive was conducted on 14^th June 2014.

Esops Champion Mr. Goyal

Mahindra Powerol geared up for this ambitious plan of planting 50,000 saplings across India and in two international locations – UAE and Nepal.

Mr. Palaniappan, Esops Leader, Sr. Vice President and Business Head – Powerol initiated the drive by planting the first sapling in Bangalore.

The Esops champion Mr. Narendra Goyal, General Manager – Powerol Business, led the drive with relentless passion along with the Esops Implementation Committee.

Powerol Green Team from Kandivali participated in Plantation Drive on 14^th June’14

Plantation drive in Dubai

Mahindra Powerol invited its channel partners to actively participate in mega plantation initiative. The response was overwhelming and helped Powerol achieve its target of planting 50,000 saplings!

Special thanks to the local coordinators of each location who ensured this drive was successful.  

Celebrating Sustainability Month and World Environment Day is about the inspirational power of a few individual actions that collectively become an exponential force for driving positive change. Powerol will be organizing more activities as part of its CSR initiatives.