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 the planet? What are these energies that we exchange, knowingly or…
CSR has become an integral part of most large corporations in India. Critical to its intentions, implementations and results are the CSR leaders in those organisations. When it comes to CSR, they set the tone, strategy and priorities, as also the related values and culture within the company. In fact, they are often the difference…
‘She asked for it.’ ‘If she lost weight she’d be pretty.’ ‘She got promoted because of her looks.’ These statements reflect the usual body shaming, casual sexism, and blatant objectification that women and adolescent girls go through every day. Be it for the clothes they wear or the opinions they voice, the statistics for harassment…
Cartload upon cartload of sugarcane dominates the narrow roads of Bazpur until Kashipur (in Uttarakhand, as you leave the mountains behind). So much sugarcane, you exclaim and wonder. For all the sugar in our processed food products, you soon realise. Sugar, the modern-day curse and cancer, is also a big reason for the air pollution…
The siren of the ambulance mixes with the incessant horns of bikes and less-incessant horns of cars and I realise that that aggression is feeding some aggression inside me and I honk in turn at a random bike rider, thinking I am teaching him a lesson while being totally sceptical that he is taking any…
There are lots of different kinds of studies and the environment is one of them. The environment is something which people play with a lot. They throw garbage in the water and cut down trees, obviously not caring about how it can affect things. Even though a lot of the environment is played with, some…
Child, I wish life was more than about moving on, getting by, letting go, living on, letting this and that pass, finding peace, finding acceptance, resigning to the ways of the world, and so on. Today I am feeling the shock of it and grieving and raging and protesting and screaming. Tomorrow it may…
Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all. ~ Paul Hawken For nearly a decade, Team CauseBecause has been propagating the ‘people’ and ‘planet’ aspects of sustainability amongst Indian corporate houses that have sort of mastered the profit aspect of business. This…
Am I not glad for having dragged this errant-driver-cum-errant-and-foul-speaking-man to the police station today? And he thought he could get away with a) taking a turn on my side of the road while entering the colony gate, landing in front of my car, and putting his fingers up gesticulating, instead of moving his car, b)…
orporate social responsibility (CSR), or the fact of CSR becoming a sort of law, has bred a strange phenomenon (are all phenomena strange by default?) of companies going into self-denial mode. In what sense, one may ask. Do they behave as if they have no responsibility in the first place? Or do they outright deny…
