World Earth Day: The Things We Use, The Things We Leave Behind
40% of the world’s plastic waste comes from packaging.The problem is that it usually shows up at the end of things. After the food is eaten. After you or I open the package. After something small and useful has already served its purpose.
In Villages Where Mental Health Is Rarely Discussed, the LiveLoveLaugh Foundation and Bisleri Are Starting the Conversation
In many parts of rural India, struggles with mental health rarely make it to the doctor’s desk. For many, such struggles linger at home, unnamed, often misunderstood, and quietly endured. Which is why a partnership between The Live Love Laugh Foundation and Bisleri
How Jindal Foundation’s #HerKadam is Supporting Women, One Step at a Time
When we talk about women’s empowerment, it often sounds like a big idea. But on the ground, it usually begins with something much smaller a skill learned, a first income earned, or the confidence to make a decision. That is the space where
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