Indian Households’ Healthcare Woes

The low penetration of health insurance and high health costs expose Indian households, especially those at the bottom of the pyramid, to severe financial shocks, according...

Reforming Healthcare In India

India faces a triple-disease burden of maternal and child health, infectious, and non-communicable diseases. This is despite India’s status as the third-largest econo...

Can Television Be Fair To Muslims?

FOR the Nuxalbari Estate in the lush hills of India’s north-east, relief came in the nick of time. With winter pruning of its tea plantations at hand, 600 workers wer...

'Swarm Electrification' in Bangladesh Lets Neighbours Swap Solar Electricity

Ten households in Shakimali Matborkandi, a village in the Shariatpur district of Bangladesh, have seen a dramatic change over the past year in the way they light their home...

Do We Know What Our Children Want?

"There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place."

J.K. Rowling

Over the last one century or so, ordin...

How Neha Bagaria Enables Women To Meaningfully Restart Their Careers After A Break

Neha Bagaria through her platform, Jobs for Her, helps women who are often inhibited by internal and external barriers, to advance their professional lives after a career b...

What Is Neurocapitalism And Why Are We Living In It?

It's a fact: we are bang in the middle of the Anthropocene. We have changed the destiny of our planet and its ecosystems, to the point that human actions have become as pow...

Eliminating Money, Taxes, And Ownership Will Bring Forth Technoutopia

Futurist and architect Jacque Fresco speaks in parables. If he goes on too long with a story, his 40-year partner Roxanne Meadows interjects facts to keep hi...

Multinational Companies Have Helped Increase Gender Diversity In India

Vasanthi Srinivasan, Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore tells Business Today while there is increase in th...