Sustaining our Development

The CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Sue Desmond-Hellmann spoke to livemint.com, discussing the need to provide healthcare to India's poor to achieve the susta...

Investing in our Future

India has the world's biggest youth population, and is pinned to become home to the largest working-age population within the next two decades. A population of 1.2 billion ...

Digitising the Deccan

In a small-town in Maharashtra, a quiet digital revolution is taking place, creating a model district that helps communities and authorities to locate problems in real-time...

Virtual Beliefs

We're moving into an increasingly automatised world, and most jobs we know of today will disappear within the next decade or two, with the pace at which progress is happeni...

Monsoon Deluge: Between Predictions And Advisories

The 29th of August saw Mumbai fall victim to a cloudburst, and, as the city went under, drowning in amassed water, one paused to think of the reason as to why our cities ke...

Sustaining Sanitation

With the Prime Minister riding high on the publicity of the Swachh Bharat Mission, clean India seems to be an achievable dream today, but statistics say otherwise.

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Indigenous People

The International Day of the World's Indigenous People was celebrated worldwide on the 9th of August 2017, to commemorate the varied endemic cultures and peoples around the...

Hard hats and Chappals

Construction is the second largest economic activity in India after agriculture. The Indian construction industry employs over 35 million people and creates assets worth ov...

Opening Minds about Open Defecation

Open defecation, although, is on a decline worldwide, it is still widely practiced by 950 million open defecators in the world, 569 million of which are in India.

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