Notions of Sustainability in the Built Environment

India stands at the cusp of exponential urbanisation, with the urban population expected to double to 1 billion people by 2050. As hubs of concentrated human activity, cities have amplified social, environmental, and economic impacts and are also more vulnerable to the intensifying poly-crisis of climate change, disaster risk, pollution, …

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 …

Rebuilding Bundelkhand

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