Finance that Builds Futures: Reimagining Capital to Unleash Inclusive Entrepreneurship

The global financial landscape is undergoing a significant transformation, marked by heightened volatility and rapidly changing credit dynamics. In India, these global shifts are mirrored by domestic challenges which underscore a critical issue: while traditional financial systems are adapting to new global realities, significant segments of the population face exclusion …

Water: The Most Critical but Most Used Resource of the World

Water is the most important and widely used resource on Earth, essential for sustaining life. It plays a crucial role in maintaining a healthy lifestyle, supporting agriculture, and driving industrial production. Almost everything in our life is connected to water. About 60% of our body is composed of water and …

Airwaves of Change: Radio Bundelkhand’s Gender-Inclusive Revolution

With its rugged landscape and arid climate, Bundelkhand is a canvas painted by contrasts. This plateau, marked by breathtaking landscapes, has also been scarred by a pattern of harsh climate—frequent droughts, shrinking water tables, and cracked, thirsty fields. For generations, it has been shaped by erratic monsoons and depleting natural …

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 …