FUTURE PROOFING THE ONE DOLLAR FARMER
In Asia, nearly 85% of the farmers are small and marginal farmers, in India this number if close to 82%. They have small landholdings and limited resources. World Bank calls …
BEACON OF HOPE
It is difficult to imagine the lives of kids who dwell on footpaths in the red-light areas of Kolkata, an eastern bustling metro city in India. Most of their mothers …
THE FOOTPATH CLASSROOM
It is said that in children we find reflections of God. But in developing countries like India, millions of children do not have access to education. Leave alone education they …
A TOUCH OF GRACE
‘Give a fish to a person, you feed her for a day, teach her to catch a fish, you feed her for life.’ An inspirational story of a one-woman army …
Gender Equality is Out-of-date, Let’s Talk Generation Equality
Despite decades of efforts for women empowerment and gender equality, the hard reality is that real change has been agonizingly slow for the majority of women and girls in the …
Baking A Dream – Inspirational Entrepreneurial Journey of a Young Lady
This is the inspirational story of a young lady’s successful entrepreneurial journey. Sandhya is exemplary for the kind of passion she demonstrated, for her very rational approach to entrepreneurship and …
THE ENTERPRISING RIBIKA GIRLS
Richa, Bindiya and Kanika – the RIBIKA girls are well educated and belong to well-established business families, entrepreneurship kind of runs in their blood. Yet when they decided to focus …
Why a Homemaker is not considered as Working?
Why does one undermine the contribution of a homemaker? And why is it assumed that only a woman can be a homemaker? When new acquaintances tend to get more familiar, …
What is the biggest challenge of parenting Generation Z or the Zeners?
Zeners or Generation Z – the preteens and teenagers of today are not quite the same as us when we were of their age. The zeners are living different times …
An interview with Roshan D’Costa – Director-HR for Bureau Veritas, CIF Middle East region
A prominent HR leader of the Asia region Roshan D’Costa is interviewed by Dr. Debashish Sengupta, Asia Editor of the magazine. This interview highlights how Bureau Veritas is creating a …
Interview with R Yuvakumar, Dubai
Interview with R. Yuvakumar- Managing Director and Chief Consultant, Centre for Awakened Learning & Management FZ LLC., Dubai, U.A.E. Debashish: You have been at a senior leadership role and have …
An ocean full of plastic
How an architect from Germany became a crusader of environmental sustainability in Bahrain, a small island nation in the middle-east region of the world. Active supporter of environmental sustainability campaigns …
No carbon in the Kingdom of Happiness
Bhutan, also known as Druk Yul – Land of Thunder Dragon, has built sustainability in its national culture. Billed as the happiest country in the world, what is the secret …
UNLIMITED FOOD FOR EDUCATION Interview of Shridhar Venkat, CEO of The Akshaya Patra Foundation
Marginalia: The Akshaya Patra Foundation was started 19 years ago. What has been the inspiration behind starting Akshaya Patra? How did a thought become a movement? Shridhar: We started our …