Editors: Vikram Singh Mehta, Jayapadma RV and Neelima KhetanPublisher: HarperCollins India “Anchoring Change attempts to showcase 24 successful social organizations from across India, spanning seventy-five years since independence. It shifts the conversation from India’s failures to successes and distils from these successes relevant design principles that might have wide relevance to create an alternative, grassroots-based, sustainable development model.” JURY …
Authors: Swati Rajput, Kavita Arora and Rachna MathurPublisher: Routledge India “This book looks at the ecological stress on cities and engages with the challenges of reducing vulnerabilities and risks of pollution on the health, well-being and livelihoods of people living in developing countries. With an emphasis on the environmental issues facing the city of Delhi, the book focuses on steps…
Author: N R KrishnanPublisher: Notion Press “This book traces the global and national process of gradual change in the integration of development and environment and, in a deeper sense the ethics of the relationship between humans and nature. The book is a veritable treasure of knowledge that shows how to live today for a common future in which no one…
Publisher: Penguin VikingAuthor: Esha Chhabra Historically, big businesses have sourced materials from remote corners of the globe and moved millions of people and tons of cargo around the clock-all in the name of profit. But many of today’s startups are rewriting the rules. Journalist Esha Chhabra draws on her decades of reporting to explore the nuanced realities and promise of…
by Benedict Paramanand The case study method of teaching in most business schools is blamed for a lack of creativity, innovation, and a risk-averse mindset among most managers. They have been training the brains of young MBAs to learn from what has happened rather than look around in the moment and discover what problems can be solved in newer ways.…
by Benedict Paramanand Nagaraja Prakasam’s book Back to Bharat – In Search of a Sustainable Future packs in a lot of tough dilemmas India, the world, entrepreneurs, policymakers, the planet and consumers currently face. He offers native, well-informed and sometimes radical solutions on how to address them. He rightly seeks a sense of urgency in how the world is trying to solve…
Publisher: Penguin BusinessAuthor: Siddarth Shrikanth Our planet is facing not one but two crises. In a world where carbon emissions and climate financing are rightly rising up the agenda, there exists another catastrophe that is often overlooked but just as dire-the global collapse of our ecosystems. Siddarth Shrikanth’s The Case for Nature presents a compelling vision for tackling this other crisis by…
Publisher: Penguin BusinessAuthor: Nagaraja Prakasam Back to Bharat: In Search of a Sustainable Future is a book that addresses the present economic dilemma for Indian entrepreneurs and consumers, looking at the past and present situation of both India and the developed world to find a way forward. Written in an engaging and anecdotal style, the book is enriched with case studies…