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Concluding our #LocalForDiwali series, we are being #vocalforlocal food providers in Mumbai. Diwali is not complete without awesome festival food. The tasty treats in form of sweets and savouries are enough to compel the most sincere diet watchers into taking a few cheat days. All across the country, home-made food businesses have increased in numbers...

Continuing our Diwali series, we are here being vocal for local for a few festival related services that everyone need at this time of the year. Diwali preparations involve a ton of cleaning and decorating of the house. The festival is all about letting the old clutter of the year go and welcome the...

Light sources are the most important part of the decorations since Diwali is the festival of lights, after all. What is Diwali without lanterns and diyas adorning each corner of the house? Rather than shopping for these items in stores, why not be Local for Diwali and empower people with special needs at the...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the citizens of India to be vocal for local and to promote ‘local for Diwali’ this festive season. He encouraged the people of India to participate in the festivities this year by purchasing local products. “Celebrating Diwali with local will give a new boost to the economy,” he said....

A global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation, Capgemini is at the forefront of innovation in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms. With Altran, the Group reported 2019 combined global revenues of €17 billion. What sets the company apart from other global businesses is the conviction that the business value...

Diwali shopping is at its peak. Online portals are competing for your attention. Malls have reopened with sales of the century. Fashion designers are rolling out the red carpet now that they are back in business. However, we recommend going local for your 2020 festive shopping. Patronise small businesses selling handmade clothes, which are...

The year 2020 has been unkind to people across classes and countries, but the minority that has probably suffered the most in India is the transgender community. From the loss of livelihoods to blatant misrepresentation in the Transgender Persons Act, 2019, trans people suffered one setback after another. One more is threatening to rear...

A report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has revealed that 30 cities of India may face severe water scarcity by 2050. The report listed a hundred cities across the world including the 30 Indian cities that are likely to face such severe water scarcity. The reason for this grave water risk has...

Teenagers navigate a different landscape today than any of the generations before them. Your parents and you faced sets of challenges that varied from each other all those decades ago. What makes the current generation's adolescence unique is the omnipresence of social media and the internet. Granted, we had the internet growing up, but it...

US Election 2020 is drawing to a nail-biting finish. American President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden are neck-to-neck after rancorous campaigning in the midst of a pandemic. Trump has been a climate change skeptic and went easy on mandates for corporate citizenship. What will happen to the global CSR landscape if...

Today marks the end of Ganga Utsav 2020, the festival which celebrates the glory of the historically and religiously important river Ganga. On November 4th 2008, Ganga was declared as the national river of India. Ganga Utsav Ganga Utsav is celebrated each year by National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG). The three-day festival aims to promote stakeholder engagement and...

The verdict is out. Infosys has beaten Tata Chemicals for the Number 1 position in our 2020 India sustainability and CSR chart. Tata Chemicals held the top spot for three consecutive years, until now. Infosys was the second ranker in 2019, and has risen to numero uno for CSR in 2020. Infosys Foundation Chair Sudha...