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Creating a Sustainable Social Impact: An Inside Out Perspective on Entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneurship is slowly evolving in small pockets in different parts of India. While most such ventures generally start with a lot of promise, only a few of them are able to survive and prosper. Many of them opt for funding to build the scale of operations, and sometimes even to keep the enterprise...
Cooling Down India, Saving the World
By: Dr. Pankaj Jain, Head of the Department of Humanities & Languages and Chair of the India Centre at FLAME University.
These are some of the news headlines over the past few weeks, even as India continues to reel under scorching summer. From an intense and extended winter right into a scorching summer, we are...
A Balanced, Post-Glasgow Climate Policy for India
India’s role in the recently concluded Glasgow Climate Summit was both progressive and a defence of the status quo. This has implications for the shape of its climate and energy policies. On the one hand, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced ambitious targets such as India achieving net zero emissions by 2070 and non-fossil fuel...
Five Indic Theories that can Influence Climate Engineering Measures
By: Dr. Pankaj Jain, Head of the Department of Humanities & Languages and Chair of the India Centre at FLAME University.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the scientific body of the United Nations with a mandate to study climate change, defines climate engineering as deliberately altering the climate system to counter climate change....
How Can Service Communities Organise Themselves to Serve Societal Needs during a Public Crisis?
The pandemic has hit India hard in the last several months. Though the state machinery and healthcare system are doing whatever they can with limited resources, common man is also striving to serve fellow beings in the time of this crisis. Individuals are either working alone or in association with like-minded people by forming...