OPINIONS

Twelve years ago, on this date (September 18, 2009), at the 8th World Bamboo Congress in Thailand, the World Bamboo Organisation declared the day (September 18) to be observed as the World Bamboo Day to spread awareness on the benefits of bamboo and promote its use in everyday products. This year the theme for...

Every momentous shift in the way we live and work creates an unprecedented and irrevocable transformation that we often term as ‘revolutionary.’ Are we seeing the beginning of a fourth industrial revolution and the kind of a metamorphosis that we have never seen before? I believe so. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is a term...

By Prof. Serge da Motta Veiga and Genevieve Houriet Segard, EDHEC Business School While artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining ground in most businesses, considering its impact on society and the ethics of its use is becoming paramount. AI transforms not only the companies’ products and services but also their relationships with their customers and employees. In...

By: Mohit Raj, Founder, Tycia Foundation The hell broke loose on the cusp of March & April 2021, while we were still recovering from the loss, pain, grief, and unpreparedness of COVID-19 wave-I and the wave-II hit us even aggressively. People were dropping dead like flies, the cremation grounds were overwhelmed, pyres burning on the...

By: Rozita Singh, Dr. Krishnan Srinivasaraghavan, Swetha Kolluri, and Sona Pradeep Citizen science and citizen engagement are powerful means to build trust in science and leverage the vast societal intelligence and capabilities to promote innovation. Be it discovering exoplanets (astronomy), updating bird migration records (ornithology), tracking marine debris (oceanography) or identifying modern slavery hotspots, citizen scientists...

Most employers keep the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability as a compliance and not a necessity. If not accompanied by accountable actions, their efforts for being more responsible may now be seen as an attempt to green wash and this could lead to a negative impact on their employer brand. The United...

By Joseph Wesley, Head-Anti Trafficking Programme, World Vision India About two lakh people are trafficked in India every year. Children are trafficked because of complex push-and-pull factors including structural poverty, climate change, human right violations and now due to COVID crisis- on the one hand the promise for a better life and on the other...

By Manendra Singh, Associate Partner and Tanvi Goyal, Principal Associate at ELP Across the world, there is a growing demand on corporations to focus on sustainable development goals and strengthen the social responsibility of business. Working in sync with each other, while Governments are taking initiatives to bring legislative changes, investors also have started to...

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...

In recent years, the alarming rate of deforestation and land degradation has emphasized the urgent need for action to protect the world's abundant biodiversity. The current COVID-19 scenario has brought this reality to us and highlighted the relationship between people's health and the health of the ecosystem, underlining the significance of environmental conservation. This...

According to IDC (International Data Corporation), by the year 2022, 60% of global GDP will be digitized. Growth, it says, in every industry will be driven by digitally-enhanced offerings, operations and relationships. Successful companies in a digitized world, the report suggests, will be those with innovative digital transformation plans embedded in their business strategy. During...

India came under the International spotlight during the second wave of the pandemic, showcasing to the world the catastrophic impacts of its ill-preparedness. However much of this focus was on the crisis in urban India, where we will never forget the grim scenes of footage showing people scrambling for oxygen, fighting for hospital beds...