Opinions
How Organisations Could Build Their Net-Zero Transition Plans
With multiple climate change pressures (and opportunities) starting to grow, it’s clear that organisations need to formulate a comprehensive new approach to the way...
Enabling Digitisation Among Microentrepreneurs in a post COVID-19 World
The Covid-19 pandemic necessitated a swift move to digital-focused business strategies and transactions due to safety, business discovery, marketing and logistical considerations. Even the...
Role of the Private Sector in Supporting Access to Primary Healthcare
By Aravindan Srinivasan and Akshat Garg, AVPN
Tomorrow is Universal Health Coverage Day. ‘Health for all’ is a cherished global vision that was first formalized...
Human Rights Day: Human rights through the lens of corporate governance
Human rights are fundamental rights and liberties based on dignity, justice, equality, and respect that safeguard us as we interact with other elements of...
Addressing the Congenital Heart Defects Problem in Rural India
In India, nine in a thousand children are born with Congenital Heart Defects (CHD), translating to 2 lac children every year. (Medical Journal of...
Positive Action for Gender Equity in Tech
Words like intersectionality, gender inclusiveness, diversity and pay equity are often considered to be vague indicators of women empowerment at the workplace.
The ground reality,...
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...
How businesses can use nature-based solutions to build resilience
We face unprecedented challenges in our world today. The ongoing once-in-a-generation pandemic, to increasingly extreme weather events causing devastation at local and regional scales....
On World Toilet Day, a Re-look at the Action Needed to Harness the Looming Sanitation Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the need for better hygiene habits, yet many still do not have access to basic sanitation or water facilities....
Digital Lending: Changing the financial inclusion landscape in India
The rise of digitalisation following the COVID-19 crisis has complemented the growth of industries such as e‑commerce, financial services and consumer credit. Consequently, the...
A Case for Educational Travelling as an Alternate Learning Model
By: Tabish Bilal, Manager - Operations & Finance at Tycia Foundation
A page from the history books
The year is 1893. A young Indian man travels...
Brand Building Through Corporate Social Responsibility
For every rupee spent on CSR, firms should spend 10 rupees on marketing the said initiative. Corporate social responsibility has become one of the...