Women-Led Micro Movements: Shaping the Future of Work

Sixty-seven per cent of India’s 1.4 billion population is in the working age group, and over 100 million young women and men are expected to seek gainful employment by 2030. However, the nation is close to facing an employment crisis, as the market is ill-equipped to absorb them. Despite being …

COP29: Another ‘Defining Moment’ for Climate Action

COPs (Conferences of the Parties) come and go. Each year, governments, businesses and civil society organisations gather together in large numbers and at considerable expense and emission to halt the lemming-like march of humanity towards the climatic cliff just ahead of us. The ambitious goals we set each year often …

Empowering Rural Women: A Catalyst for Global Change

‘When you empower women, you empower a nation’ As we approach the International Day of Rural Women on October 15, it is crucial to recognise the remarkable contributions of rural women to the socio-economic fabric of our world. These women are at the forefront of food production, natural resource management …

Rebuilding Bundelkhand

Few places on Earth exemplify better than the region of Bundelkhand in Central India the adage of ‘resource curse’. Despite its enormous …