Under the Hood

Halabol Features in HT - "Nation's Young Change-Makers"

Halabol got featured in the Hindustan Times's Editorial section on 23 March 2013. The feature focused on the youth of India engaging in collective activism. Afroz Alam Sahil, 27, wanted to take his RTI activism up a notch by educating people about how to follow up on their applications. So in...
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Gifting Lives Becomes More Meaningful: The Indian Ocean Concert

When Mohan Foundation informed Halabol about the event they had in mind, we knew it would stir up souls, more than anything else. Mohan Foundation is an NGO that works for the cause of Organ Donation and believes that somewhere, millions of lives can be saved, only if there is enough awareness...
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Fits Of Fury - The Angry Indian

Ankur Gupta features in India Debates January 2013 issue as a part of the story – ‘Fits Of Fury - The Angry Indian’. India Debates is published and printed fortnightly by Navin S Berry on behalf of Cross Section Publications Pvt Ltd. Please read the article below. The year 2012 was a year of anger...
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Want To Make A Difference? Halabol Is How

Founder and CEO, Halabol, Ankur Gupta's journey so far as published in yourstory.in Many of our readers have probably at some point had a desire to start a social initiative, but were discouraged by a lack of support, money, or a team to back them up. For those of you in this category, we have...
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Let's Halabol for 2013!

When Halabol took off in the month of January last year, we had just one thing in mind – Let’s get people to do things that they only wished they could, let’s not give them anymore reasons to make excuses, let’s get the ‘change’ rolling! And we are immensely proud of the fact that you all proved...
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A Humble Dream

Ankur Gupta, founder & CEO of Halabol, an online platform for social activism, is asking for a simple thing - Change. As told to Purva Grover... Expectations and hope. I recall someone once told me that dreams are born of promising thoughts. And I also recall disagreeing with that someone and...
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Campaign Your Cause On Halabol

We've constantly talked about how change is an important factor to our existence. And the fact that we all live on ‘hope’ is a clear indication that we wish things were different, most of the time.  We’re always ‘hoping’ that someday we’ll achieve goals that we've set for...
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Nonprofits on Halabol

A Nonprofit thrives on the willingness of those who aspire to support and help the community, and such endeavors only make way for a society that strengthens the belief of social good. However, these nonprofit social bodies need to constantly transform the will into action, to uphold the true value...
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People Unite for Sonali

Sonali Mukherjee was living an inconspicuous life until July 12th when she got her first media coverage in The Hindu. People read about her tragedy... A heart-wrenching story of a 17-year-old girl, attacked with acid by 3 men for raising her voice against them and their persistent sexual...
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Marry For Love Or Convenience?

For the longest time, India has lived on the concept of arranged marriage and Indians hold this topic of discussion as their all-time favourite. This debate of how we, as Indians, willingly embrace the way of finding partners via the process of everything being 'arranged' for us stands vis-a-vis to...
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