India has no shortage of billionaires. We added 17 new ones in 2017 alone, taking the count up to 101. During the same year, the wealth of this elite group increased by INR 20,91,300 crore—an amount equal to total budget of Central Government in 2017-18. There is another list that tracks how the rich have fared in India year after year—the Hurun India Rich …
The Economic Times Women’s Forum 2019 took forward the mission that it launched last year — to collaboratively and urgently build a sustainable culture of empowering India’s half a billion women — through a scintillating day of conversations and debates about encouraging greater participation and reducing gender inequality in every sphere of life, work, and play. Understanding the issues that …
On the morning of January 19, 2019, I got up and heard from my father that Vishweshwar Dutt Saklani ji passed away a day before at the age of 96. I was shocked and silent for a few seconds. A freedom fighter, conservationist and a scientist who truly heard the voice of trees, Mr Saklani was also known as ‘Vriksha Manav’ or …
While the world today is focusing on making the planet greener, Rohit Mehra, an Indian Revenue Service officer found a unique way to spread an eco-friendly message using the path of devotion. Mehra, who is famous in Ludhiana, Punjab for his vertical garden initiative, once again has left the citizens stunned with his seed ball prasad drive. Seed ball prasad …
It is an 8ftx8ft windowless mud room with no electricity that is Vaishali Padmukh’s home for four days every month. Every time she gets her period, the 37-year-old resident of Sitatoli village in Gadchiroli district is banished to a ‘period hut’ known as kurma ghar or gaokar in local lingo. Located on the outskirts of the village, the hut is …
