Degrees of indifference, the age of social-media emotions, and other miscellaneous outpourings
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
Can we make sustainable animal farming possible?
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
What can we do (or not do) to keep air pollution down: Ideas from a 10-year-old
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
Artificial intelligence can make communities ‘anti-fragile’
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
Let’s bike it
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
A fight for peace, happiness and all things not warlike
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
CSR: Who should write your mandatory report?
[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
Those who are eyeing the spoils of this pandemic
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
Who you are ” therefore how you are
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
A circle of whys
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