Posts in category Asia

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 …

‘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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The United Nations (UN 2030) Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are considered a bless to humanity. These goals are diversified to address the different aspirations applied to all countries. Decision …

The essence of sustainable development lies in three core principles: environmental sustainability, economic sustainability and social sustainability. But after nearly four decades since the first world climate conference, has sustainability …

What happened when Chennai – a bustling metropolitan city in India ran out of water? Yes, Chennai was recently hit by the dreaded Zero Day. The author reports from ground …

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 …

When Cyclone Fani left a trail of destruction in the eastern part of India earlier this year, apart from government bodies involved, a host of companies came forward to contribute …

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 …