Kasmin Fernandes

The order of the Supreme Court issued on February 13, 2019 with respect to the claims of forest-dwelling Indian tribals — the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers — is a case of the Supreme Court speaking against itself. In effect, the court has ordered the eviction of lakhs of people whose claims as...

At a time when a recent survey found seven elephant corridors in the country impaired, the Asian Elephant Alliance, an umbrella initiative by five NGOs, has come together to secure 96 out of the 101 existing corridors used by elephants across 12 States in India. What are elephant corridors? Elephant corridors are narrow strips of land...

Hunger and malnutrition are directly linked to the shift in a climate, which in turn creates a disorder in the production cycle. The rise in temperature, water scarcity, and air pollution have combined to create an inhospitable scenario where child health will face a full-forced impact of both water-borne diseases and dangerous respiratory conditions....

Individualism is on the rise, bringing with it a new set of values. Staying single is a natural evolution alongside job hopping, co-living, digital connection and a nomadic workforce in an age defined less and less by traditionalism and more by self-expression, independence and authenticity. A report by global agency group Wunderman Thompson found that...

India has the most number of malnourished children in the world – 1 in every 3 children is malnourished. Out of 500 million children in India, a whopping 97 million are anaemic and undernourished. The deficiency of micronutrients like iron, iodine, vitamin A, folate and zinc results in malnutrition in India. The situation is extremely...

An estimated 789 million people, 11% of the world’s population, are undernourished. If trends persist, the goal of ending hunger by 2030 will be missed. Data collected by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) — using the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) in the context of the Voices of the Hungry project for 141...

CSR should hold the end-user at the centre of any work, believes Rajvi Mariwala. The daughter of Marico chairman Harsh Mariwala, Rajvi is a serious feminist and passionate animal rights advocate. Find out how the interests of next-gen philanthropist Rajvi Mariwala reinforce each other in an exclusive interview for The CSR Journal print issue....

Yoga is the original mind-body medicine that has enabled individuals to attain and maintain sukha sthanam, a dynamic sense of physical, mental and spiritual well being. Bhagavad-Gita defines Yoga as samatvam meaning thereby that yoga is equanimity at all levels, a state wherein physical homeostasis and mental equanimity occur in a balanced and healthy...

India’s electric vehicle industry is taking huge forward strides. The National Electric Mobility Mission Plan (NEMMP) 2020 was launched by the Central Government in 2013 to boost the manufacture of hybrid and electric vehicles in India and aims to achieve production of seven million electric vehicles by 2020. This initiative has been complemented by...

IIT Gandhinagar has taken the initiative in all of their food joints and canteens for improving food safety and tackling food wastage. All the eating places are licensed/registered by the Food and Drugs Control Administration (FDCA) Gujarat, trained by the Food Safety Awareness and Training Organization (FSATO) an empanelled training partner and audited by...

We spoke to R S Subramanian, Country Manager, DHL Express India and a member of the DHL Asia Pacific (excluding China) Management Board, about their ambitious goal. Deutsche Post DHL Group announced that it will reduce all logistics-related emissions to zero by the year 2050. In pursuit of this ambitious new target, the Group hopes...

With an expenditure of Rs 374 crore in the last financial year, HDFC Bank is one of the largest spenders of CSR in the country, yet its focus has always been on sustainability. “We believe that business cannot prosper if the communities in which they operate fail. Thus all our social initiatives have a concerted...