Did you know that plastic is not only waste, but can even be used to make surfboards? In our workshops we look at plastic as a resource and raise awareness for a sustainable use of it. Our small contribution to a better world - interactive, fun & at eye level.
We believe in a world without new plastic. And we make the best of the old. We are creating awareness through education of how to deal with plastic. We also love surfing. That's why we develop & market sustainable surf equipment.
Merijaan is built on two foundations. Social educates people about recycling and creates awareness for plastic as a resource by setting up local value chains. Surf uses plastic waste to create sustainable surf equipment.
I love sports in nature. Vaulting, arco yoga, kitesurfing, everything! I studied industrial engineering and worked at Bombardier and Capgemini among others. In 2016, I presented the first idea for Merijaan in a social venture competition at the UN in New York.
During a semester abroad in India, I saw so much poverty and plastic waste that I really wanted to do something about it. After many failed attempts, we found a solution with Merijaan that addresses both problems.
In der Werkstatt stehen, Plastik schmelzen und dabei lauten Techno hren! Und unser Team ist einfach das Beste. Ich bin immer wieder beeindruckt und inspiriert von der tollen Arbeit, die jede:r leistet. Es gibt tausend kleine Dinge, die ich an der Arbeit bei Merijaan geniee.
I am Mona and I take care of what is acutely needed at the moment. I process email requests and support the practical implementation in our workshop. In addition, I have made it my mission to give Merijaan a reach, especially among the younger generation.
It often gives me a headache how many problems there are in the world and the associated feeling of never being able to eliminate them all. Especially how our planet is ruined by the ruthlessness of humans makes me sad. Merijaan is contributing to a more sustainable world and I want to be part of that.
I've been boarding since I was little - in the snow, on the water, everywhere. That's where I feel free. I recently started mountain biking again - pure adrenaline! I used to work in technical design in the automotive industry.
Plastic is not waste, but an important resource. Industry and politics do nothing about littering because it seems unprofitable. That's exactly where we come in with Merijaan - and prove that change is possible.
There was a time when, with some help from the media, gangsters were as famous as movie stars. They were all but put on a pedestal and worshipped; films like Nayakan came close to doing that.
Hollywood had already started the deification of the Mafia don withm Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather movies and major directors like Brian De Palma and Martin Scorsese carried the torch aloft. Bollywood, ever so eager to pick up a saleable idea, made dozens of gangster films taking the idea and copying even a few key scenes.
If America had Al Capone and the legends of the Irish, Italian and Cuban gangsters, Mumbai had its trinity -- Haji Mastan, Karim Lala and Dawood Ibrahim -- all of them were colourful enough to launch a thousand films.
Excel Entertainment and Director Shujaat Saudagar seem to think so, and have gathered acting and writing talent plus a generous budget to make Bambai Meri Jaan (the title appears over a human heart to make the title literal).
Maybe with underworld activity no longer associated with Bollywood-ready personalities, filmmakers are nostalgic for the good ol' days of gang wars. Or maybe they think the new generation of OTT viewers needs to know about the gangsters who ran amok in the city in the 1980s.
When crime in Mumbai -- at that time, it mostly gold smuggling -- gets out of hand, Ismail is given charge of the newly-formed Pathan Squad to go after the gangs of Haji Maqbool (Saurabh Sachdeva) and Azeem Pathan (Nawab Shah). Later, Anna Rajan Mudaliar (Dinesh Prabhakar) joins them with his network.
Even as a kid, Dara has a fearless and twisted mind. For instance, when the family cannot afford a goat for Eid, he steals one. After the owner comes to claim it, he finds a bloody goat's head in his bathroom. A direct hat-tip to the horse head scene from The Godfather.
He starts by challenging and taking over Pathan's extortion racket in his locality and with the encouragement of a cop, Malik (Shiv Pandit), who wants to use him to defang the Haji-Pathan-Anna nexus, Dara has the ambition and gumption of taking over the city's underworld.
Interestingly, the show has a different end for the three big gangsters. In real life, they all died of heart attacks, one of them at the ripe old age of 90. So in all fairness, no film or show can claim that crime does not pay.
As a child, it was great fun to see my mamas and chachas in Ayodhya ride the 'Bullat' (called Bullt in Delhi) and go on and on about it. They would even hum the iconic 'ye bullet meri jaan, manzilo ka nishan' song.
I could not help but say all of this in a TV review of the bike. The RE team reached out. They were polite. Claimed they did 'not want me to change my opinion' but courteously attempted to tell me how pollution norms and assembly line compulsions meant that the Bullet had to be this way.
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