Tag: Chennai

By Smita Ram, Rang De Team This Independence day (Sunday, 15 August), you can join us for a special screening of Peepli Live at Sathyam Cinemas, Chennai. Organised by the Rang De Chennai Chapter, the event aims to weave Rang De and Peepli Live together. Peepli Live (produced by UTV Motion Pictures) is a satire Read more …

By Smita Ram, Rang De Team Ram explains the Rang De Model as Gitesh kept asking questions that required in-depth explanations. Rohit (President of the Chennai Chapter) and I were literally crossing our fingers. The Rang De Chennai Google Group had suddenly grown in membership in the past couple of weeks and we wanted to Read more …

By Smita Ram, Rang De Team Members of the Swarathma band take a bow after their fabulous performance. Swarathma is a Bangalore based band that performs Hindi music. If last time it was the arrival of the VIPs that caused a scare at the Rang De concert (Read Rang De Oxygen Concert), this time it Read more …

After the success of our first event “Oxygen – Live in Concert“, we have gotten our act together and have organised our second event. We present to you “Swarathma, Live in Concert” Poster for our event “Swarathma – Live in Concert”. Contact us if you would like to post a hard copy of the poster Read more …

By Smita Ram, Rang De Team Rang De not doing anything for Holi is unacceptable right? We kept the Holi campaign under wraps until now and were patiently waiting for its completion. The Holi campaign was initiated by the Rang De Bangalore Chapter with an intent to do something that would involve school children. Something Read more …

By Smita Ram, Rang De Team “Mount Road is closed between 3.30pm and 7.30 pm on 13th” Our hearts skipped more than a few beats when staff at the Mahindra World City gave us this news. Mount Road runs through a 25 km stretch and most people in Chennai would have to cross through the Read more …

By Arvind Sridharan and Smita Ram, Rang De Team “2 years, 2200 borrowers, 11 million INR disbursed.In a country of 1.2 billion people, we have not even scratched the surface. 10 passionate people working and thinking of change 24/7, 3 active chapters and 5 more getting active by the day. I’d say watch out 2010 Read more …

By Smita Ram, Rang De Team Rang De team member Diksha (right) takes a count of the number of punches made by a participant in Rang De’s “Knock Out” punching bag contest. Be it our Rang De neighbourhood tea party or our futile attempt at the Tidel Park train station, there has been one thing Read more …

By Arvind Sridharan, Summer Intern Rang De team members were delighted on seeing the Rang De video on the projector before the start of the campaign at Globus, T Nagar Chennai. The evenings of Saturday July 11 and Sunday July 12 saw the Rang De team at Globus T Nagar, Chennai with newly designed bookmarks Read more …

By Arvind Sridharan, Summer Intern After a few small campaigns at malls and the Tiruvanmyur train station (as part of Rang De’s campaign to spread awareness and increase the number of social investors), we wanted to try something new: and that too right around the office’s neighbourhood. We wanted to hold a tea party. More Read more …