Malleswaram Mirror Special: Ctrl + Alt + Hope
ByJayanthi MadhukarJayanthi Madhukar / Updated: May 8, 2021, 06:00 IST
Even as her social enterprise fights to survive after one year of the pandemic,
Nandini Karanje, co-founder of
For the past 26 years, two old friends Nandini Karanje and
Rekha Mavinkurve, have been running Urvee, a popular outlet in Malleswaram that sells paper products, screen printed wedding cards, stationery and other products. Urvee, which means Earth in
Sanskrit, is a social enterprise that has been empowering women from lower-income groups by teaching them skills to gain economic stability.
Urvee’s handmade paper, jute and cloth products were sought by corporates like