This Swedish Mall Is Changing How the World Shops
Let’s be honest here: Most shopping malls feel the same. The same bright lights, loud salesmen convincing you to buy their lavender shampoo that is on a 60% discount ‘just for today’, racks of identical products stacked in endless rows, waiting to be
Dhanbad Diary: Observations from India’s coal capital and its forgotten edges
Dhanbad today exists as a city of striking simultaneity, where visible markers of economic ascent and deeply entrenched deprivation almost press against each other, demanding to be read together. On one side are the unmistakable signs of a city on the move: sprawling
Miles, mountains, and a mind that does not quit—Pooja Krishnamoorthy is India’s quiet force of endurance
Conviction often reveals itself quietly—not in grand declarations, but in the steady resolve to keep going when the path is uncertain, demanding, and deeply personal. Pooja Krishnamoorthy’s journey as an Indian endurance runner is one such story. It is not merely about distance
Team CB On Ground: Observations from DS Group’s CSR Work in Udaipur, Rajasthan
Over the years, having been part of assessment teams for social programmes, I have had the opportunity to closely observe a wide range of interventions across rural India. While many are well-intentioned, fewer are meaningfully aligned with local realities, and rarer still are
10 years of CSR (Act) in India – Part 1 of a short story (with the bigger picture)
To begin with If you have to handpick anecdotes, stories, people, developments, incidents… to tell a story summing up what happened in this particular domain in the past decade, a domain that you have been actively involved in and one where you are
Coffee for Cause, Edition 7. It’s not a report
Because this 7th edition unfolded in the stories shared in the room, across the 12 or 13 tables, by the 30-odd participants. We are talking real stories of course. Celebrating 10 years of CSR will mean nothing if not for the stories. Right
#TogetherWeCan: A meet-up. A community without borders. An idea whose time is now.
The #TogetherWeCan Coffee Meet-up at India Habitat Centre (IHC), New Delhi, on 25 November 2022 served as a clarion call for individual action and partnerships, which also happens to be Goal No. 17 of the SDGs. A focal point of the said
Time we rejigged the mental healthcare delivery model in the rural
– LiveLoveLaugh may be doing just that
Sitting with a motley group of people ” motley because the group featured a celebrated film actor, media representatives with varying levels of understanding of the subject in focus, an ex-corporate honcho, a young and enthusiastic non-profit team from the city, an equally
Plastic is not going away anytime soon. Let’s talk about alternatives, options, and the almost-solutions
If necessity is the mother of invention, now is the time for lots of inventions. There is such a lot of plastic in most things we use that without those inventions and innovations, we may end up (barely) surviving on a planet that
Gender equality, inclusivity, sustainability: Lived experiences, firsthand insights, an honest conversation
Taking cue from the International Women’s Day (IWD) theme this year – ‘Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow’, Team CB set out to connect the dots that may at first glance seem to not connect directly, check with key players in the