Bringing good things to life
General Electric, one of the biggest companies in the power sector in the world, has various social and community development programmes. The GE Fund's programmes are divided into higher education, pro-college, arts and culture, international, public policy, United Way and matching gifts.

Living with dignity
The Cipla Cancer Palliative Care Centre at Warje near Pune bears a testimony to it. The Pune-based centre enables terminally sick cancer patients to look pain and suffering in the eye and face the inevitable with dignity and peace so that the true spirit of living prevails even in death.

Foreign philanthropy
They have their business interests abroad, but the Hindujas believe in `giving' back to India. With a networth of Rs 811 crore as in July 1999, Hindujas have a controlling stake in Ashok Leyland. And despite being an NRI group, they have set an example in corporate responsibility in India.

Targeting social profits
Gatta, an isolated hamlet in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, was untouched by development and the quality of life that industrialisation brings in.

Soul-stirring food
You can have your spice and eat it, too, especially if you are dining at Karen Anand's Soul Spice. Anand has formulated a special menu, using regional spices and little oil, for Soul Spice, the signature restaurant at the Radisson, Chennai.

A wild one
Suneel Darshan's Jaanwar has no semblance of a script, continuity, editing sense, music or story. If your time were insured you'd have probably got the highest damages awarded in history.

Wal-Mart firm on retailing responsibility
For Joe Morman, the Competitive Edge Scholarship made all the difference. Although he excelled throughout high school, his family simply did not have the financial resources to send him to college.

Power to the people
Technology in a stratified society like ours remains shackled to the interests of the educated elite. Most people in India for want of proper dissemination of knowledge live with the belief that technology and development are not for them.