Celebrating azaadi: Listening for the concern behind the complaint

'We live in a time when hideous anger easily flares up, particularly on identity-related issues.''Often advocates of harmony and compassion fall victim to the same anger and end up hating the......

Why the world needs non-violence more than ever

'Non-violence can be a viable tool for countering the competitive brutality of terrorist groups,' argues Rajni Bakshi. Freedom of expression was the central motif of the million-strong unity march......

Tolerance as a duty is a pre-requisite to making India

If democracy is to survive and thrive, duties have to be as important as rights and tolerance must be the foundation of public and private life, says Rajni Bakshi. A hundred years after he landed......

B K S Iyengar, U R Ananthamurthy: India's beacons

What B K S Iyengar and U R Ananthamurthy embodied was a cultural self-confidence... Celebrating and nurturing this legacy of deeply rooted strengths would be the best tribute to these two lives so......

What the Sino-US climate deal means for India

While India will be pushed to keep a tight lid on its own carbon discharges, slow and low emission reduction by major polluters will cause an acceleration of climate change, says Rajni Bakshi. The......

Why corporates must design projects to involve local populace

The future belongs to companies that design and implement business models that make local communities direct beneficiaries, notes Rajni Bakshi. Image: Villagers walk towards the Mahan forest......

Gandhi's 'Sarvodaya' philosophy can revive the Indian economy

In over six decades of democracy, India has had a grim record of policies and laws that were intended to foster fairness and equality to all, says Rajni Bakshi. The austere simplicity of the Bombay......

The economics of happiness

This does not mean isolating parochialism but of new way of thinking about economic systems, says Rajni Bakshi.What might an “Economics of Happiness” look like? This question brought......