In India, the concentration of wealth is in a few hands.
What works at scale may be different from scaling what works. Pilots often succeed, while scale-up often fails when the context changes.
In this great nation of saints and poets, public administrators and ingenious architects, has our national and local imagination shrunk so much that we cannot leave the last major free flowing river...
We need more imagination, more innovation and more public financing for projects and programmes that harness the positive energy of young men.
Luckily, water, though finite, is infinitely renewable.
As with oil, water exploitation raises an inter-generational debt that will be hard to repay.
We often destroy ecology-based livelihoods in the name of employment creation.
At a physical level, India is blessed with a rich biodiversity of flora and fauna. We have a predictable monsoon, and a vast network of rivers and water bodies. We have one of the longest coastlines....
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated...
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and...
You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter...
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is...
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would...
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.