In a world in which men still dominate the institutional landscape, gender-neutrality is as much their responsibility as women's.
'People on both sides of the Hindutva debate need to read and understand the texts first,' Bibek Debroy, translator of the unabridged Mahabharata, tells Kanika Datta as he gets started on a similar project for the Ramayana.
The ban on liquor advertising is an example of policy hypocrisy at play.
India is capable of developing GM crops, Randy Hautea, global coordinator for International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, tells Kanika Datta.
Global investment is agnostic when it comes to nationalism, says Kanika Datta.
'Even apart from the Bengal famine, there was a great deal more bloodshed and deceit than I was prepared for.' 'Almost every one of the acquisitions was won by extreme extortionate methods and what came out was that these relatively honest officers found themselves doing very dishonest things.'
Indian business, on quite a different trajectory from its global counterpart, remains relatively insulated from any kind of backlash.
The rise in India's relative attractions lie in the precipitous decline in safety of the more popular destinations, notes Kanika Datta.
Physical security for women, the first step towards getting them into factories and offices, is all but absent in most Indian cities, notes Kanika Datta.
Air India must tighten costs to comes out of the red or it wil perish in no time, says experts.
The contraction in M&A activity in India contrasts sharply with the upbeat global picture, much of it led by a reviving US economy.
Technology can certainly gain India membership in the comity of modern nations in the 21st century.
Modi's minimum government, maximum governance will go a long way?
Constantly evolving rules and anomalies over tax treatment have constrained corporate programmes in the first year that the government's CSR mandate has been in force.
The prime minister had openly said the retail sector should be open to competition, domestic and foreign.
Asking employees whether they would prefer to work under a man or woman amounts to asking them to discriminate, positively or negatively, on the basis of gender.
The lawmakers seem as uninterested as those who use the railways.
Ms Banerjee's triumphal declaration of having attracted investments worth Rs 2.43 lakh crore at the summit, are numbers that no one but she and the enigmatic state finance minister Amit Mitra believe, points out Kanika Datta.
Economists expect Modi to announce big-bang reforms.
Network18 founder Raghav Bahl is all set to launch his new venture.
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