Category : Viewpoint

  I felt mixed thoughts as I read the news that the Delhi government was looking to submit a ‘tentative document'”whatever ‘tentative’ implies in this case”to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to be sent to the UNESCO so that Delhi city could

Water is ‘kind of’ important. It makes up between half and three quarters of the human body weight, needs to be topped up on a regular basis, and we cannot go without it for more than about a week. As well as drinking

Abundance is not necessarily good news. Don’t we know that all too well by now? Someone who likes to repeat his examples will refer us to the increasingly increasing wealth of the lucky few which has made the gap between the haves and

Can India halve its malnutrition rate by 2015 – which is a stated Millennium Development Goal (MDG)? Highly unlikely, would be the answer in the current scenario. Unless: The recognition of malnutrition as a critical area jumps out of policy documents, research notes

In India, there are roughly 800 million poor people going by the World Bank definition of $2 a day; that is 150 million households and an estimated credit need of Rs 240,000 crore (Rs 2,400 billion). In India, 600 million people do not

As the dust settles on the latest round of climate negotiations at COP16 (UN Climate Change Convention, Cancun), and with world expectations for a solution still at an all-time low, it is timely for CSR practitioners”like everyone else”to reflect on how we are

An offhand question: Which are the eco-destinations in India? Suppose I am an eco-conscious tourist in the excruciating habit of calculating/guesstimating the ecological cost of random getaways, which are the destinations I might choose from? Who among my fellow holidaymakers are intent on

Until a few weeks, or even months, ago, I had dismissed this as random suspicion of a vexed, sunshine-starving mind. Today”in fact, a few minutes ago”the realization, so to speak, dawned that there is a pattern to it. To these missing trails, I

I have found it useful to view the evolution of business responsibility in terms of five overlapping economic periods – the Ages of Greed, Philanthropy, Misrepresentation, Management and Responsibility – each of which typically manifests a different stage of CSR, namely: defensive, charitable,

The increased public and political focus on global warming has diverted discussion away from world resource depletion, particularly the depletion of fossil fuel energy with its potentially disastrous impact on world food production. According to its own internal whistleblowers, the International Energy Agency