PUBLIC OPEN SPACES – AN ECONOMIC AND URBAN DESIGN PERSPECTIVE
From urban design perspective, it is argued that public open spaces such as parks and gardens should be brought to the forefront in terms of mitigating the adverse effects of …
From urban design perspective, it is argued that public open spaces such as parks and gardens should be brought to the forefront in terms of mitigating the adverse effects of …
In this article senior industry professional and an expert in digital technologies SAPTARSHI BHOWMICK argues how agricultural supply chains can be made more efficient through use of smart sensing technology …
Malaysian Bestselling author and successful entrepreneur Marcus Teoh has successfully used zero budget marketing to make his business grow significantly. In this article, he shares his secret and discusses how …
In the wake of George Floyd’s killing, the Black Lives Matter movement has shone a spotlight on police brutality in America. It has also sparked protests and debate in many …
Why we should transition from a service economy to a time economy … In 2018, the service industries accounted for 81% of total UK economic output and accounted for 84% of workforce jobs in September …
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 …
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 …
‘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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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, …
I have never written about racism as I didn’t feel I was qualified, having never experienced any form of discrimination in my life. But that is precisely why I feel …
On Friday 17 April 2020, after another 861 people with coronavirus died in UK hospitals, the UK announced another 3 weeks of lockdown. It is necessary to save lives and …
It was a Friday, the 21st of February, when for the first time Italians started to understand that Coronavirus would not be just an isolated and a distant Chinese problem …
New Delhi, the city that is in my soul and my blood, the city where it all started for me as a kid and for a lot of others, this …
Air tickets? Done…Hotel booking? Done…Sightseeing Tours? Booked…Special attractions? Disneyland, Eiffel Tower, Waterloo, Kinderdijk and Keukenhof…We ended up watching their YouTube videos from our living room sofa. Not so bad, after …
January 26th 2020 — My family and I relocated from USA to Tokyo where I had accepted a new role with a leading Japanese corporation. This is our second stint …
India has been in a lockdown for over a month now, and I have been working from home a few weeks before the lockdown came into force. The first couple …
Coronavirus has subjected people to unfamiliar psychological and existential pressures. Things we’ve taken for granted- easily accessible healthcare, social contact, even food- have abruptly been threatened or curtailed. This can …