Degrees of indifference, the age of social-media emotions, and other miscellaneous outpourings

Degrees of indifference, the age of social-media emotions, and other miscellaneous outpourings

Oct 17, 2020

In a fair, ideal sort of world, my Facebook post urging people to take an affirmative stand for the cause of good air to breathe will get at least a fourth of the likes/comments/shares conferred on a post celebrating the awesomeness of someone’s

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Can we make sustainable animal farming possible?

Can we make sustainable animal farming possible?

Oct 10, 2020

The world population is predicted to reach 9.7 billion by 2050. What does this mean from a nutritional perspective? Experts say this increase in population will lead to a 70%”80% increase in demand for animal-based food – this will place significant pressure on

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What can we do (or not do) to keep air pollution down: Ideas from a 10-year-old

What can we do (or not do) to keep air pollution down: Ideas from a 10-year-old

Sep 16, 2020

Air pollution is ghastly, but there certainly is a lot of it. Everywhere in the world, there is a bit”in some places it’s more, some have it less. When the whole world had a lockdown period, pollution had decreased a great deal due

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Artificial intelligence can make communities ‘anti-fragile’

Artificial intelligence can make communities ‘anti-fragile’

Sep 15, 2020

Most natural disasters come upon us in an unprecedented tone. It becomes awfully difficult to come to terms with the damage that natural disasters cause to human lives and resources. And if you put a pandemic into the mix, like it happened this

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Let’s bike it

Let’s bike it

Aug 21, 2020

It started with the need to feel physically fit. Being at home for most of the time in the past months, there have been phases where sleep and eating rhythms were thrown off and sooner than later I began to feel not so

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A fight for peace, happiness and all things not warlike

A fight for peace, happiness and all things not warlike

Jul 23, 2020

The world is not the same anymore. I know, I know. Who doesn’t! What’s the point in stating the obvious though? Also, when has the world been the same anyway? Things have always been happening to it. Sometimes to shock, sometimes to restore

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CSR: Who should write your mandatory report?

CSR: Who should write your mandatory report?

Jul 23, 2020

[dropcap size=big]W[/dropcap]hile the next few months are about guessing when will the new guidelines making CSR impact reports mandatory be passed, one must also wonder who will be measuring the ‘impact’ in the first place. While I write down a few principles that

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Those who are eyeing the spoils of this pandemic

Those who are eyeing the spoils of this pandemic

Jul 11, 2020

In a Covid-19-hit world, there is a whole new parallel socioeconomic ecosystem that is emerging, and in a way that is turning more than our health system on its head. We now have a mask for every occasion and dress type, a sanitiser

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Who you are  ”  therefore how you are

Who you are  ”  therefore how you are

May 19, 2020

It’s many weeks since we have been locked down in our homes. There’s a lot that is happening on the outside and inside. Social media is inundated with news and people’s expressions of their perceptions and experiences of the current situation. While some

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A circle of whys

A circle of whys

Nov 3, 2019

None of us can ever be sure to see the next morning, or the next hour even. So why this compulsion to be adamant? Why so smug about humiliating others, so righteous about one’s own religion and dismissive about another’s, so careless about

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