In Uttar Pradesh, India, there is a growing micro-system of women-led “safe e-mobility network” driven by 60 battery-powered e-rickshaws that connect women and girls to schools, colleges, and healthcare facilities. It responds to women’s severely constrained mobility and connectivity, which impede the employment or education of women. This microcosm has …

Plastics have become an indispensable part of human lives and transformed everyday life. The present per capita consumption is over 21 million tonne in India. Rapid urbanisation and population growth are bound to increase their usage further in the years to come. Unlike other materials, plastics do not naturally degrade …

In the early 1980s, at around 35 years of age, the nation’s midlife crisis manifested itself in numerous life-threatening ways—two-thirds of its citizens living in extreme poverty; its vast wealth of forests, soils, water and other resources depleting rapidly; its growing global environmental responsibilities such as minimising stratospheric ozone depletion, …

Women’s close association with sustainable livelihoods, especially among the underprivileged sections of society, is well known. Climate change will (unarguably) affect the ability of vulnerable communities to provide for their everyday needs and existence. Women in ecologically critical locations are acutely aware of the threat that climate change poses to livelihood …

Can you do any media report today without factoring in climate change? Unlikely. Are you covering a fashion show? Talk to the designers and they will tell you about the problems of getting good cloth; first because cotton and silk productions have been hit by climate change and second because …

Across Indian society, entrepreneurial instincts and inclinations of a rapidly growing population are becoming increasingly visible and are exerting a rising influence on the economy. This transition, more akin to a phenomenon, is driven by demand for new products and services and is not limited to ‘start-ups’ or new micro, …