I felt mixed thoughts as I read the news that the Delhi
government was looking to submit a 'tentative document'"whatever 'tentative'
implies in this ca...
Water is 'kind of' important. It makes up between half and three quarters of the human body weight, needs to be topped up on a regular basis, and we cannot go w...
Abundance is not necessarily good news. Don't we
know that all too well by now?Someone who likes to repeat his examples will
refer us to the increasingly incr...
Can India halve its malnutrition rate by 2015 – which is a
stated Millennium Development Goal (MDG)?Highly unlikely, would be the answer in the current
scenar...
In
India, there are roughly 800 million poor people going by the World Bank
definition of $2 a day; that is 150 million households and an estimated credit
ne...
As the dust settles on the latest round of
climate negotiations at COP16 (UN Climate
Change Convention, Cancun), and with world expectations for a solution st...
An offhand question: Which are the eco-destinations in
India? Suppose I am an eco-conscious tourist in the excruciating habit of
calculating/guesstimating the...
Until a few weeks, or even months, ago, I had dismissed this
as random suspicion of a vexed, sunshine-starving mind. Today"in
fact, a few minutes ago"the real...
I have found it
useful to view the evolution of business responsibility in terms of five
overlapping economic periods – the Ages of Greed, Philanthropy,...
The increased public and political focus on global warming has diverted discussion away from world resource depletion, particularly the depletion of fossil fuel...
