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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 …

The Covid-19 pandemic has one hand put an enormous burden on the global healthcare systems, on the other hand, exposed the unpreparedness of even the nations touted to have the …

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 …