Don’t tell her you would bring her the moon. May be Moon Juice!
Using unconventional ingredients and alternative ideas, this beauty brigade is trying to remind the world everything about real beauty that matters and works; and that which has been, lazily, forgotten….
Waste is Gold – if you know how to mine it
Throwing trash elsewhere- What a waste of Waste Management! The heavy-lifting that industry is supposed to do and the clutter of management layers that waste management bodies have to endure…
Baa Baa Green Sheep…
Having wool makes for great rhymes and a farm’s balance-sheets, but there’s another question that has, of late, started mattering more in the definition of a good sheep. How much…
Bitcoin’s Energy (ab)use: Smells like Dung. But Horse Dung
Ah! the 1800s! The melody and quaint sight of hansom cabs, horse-drawn buses and goods-ferrying drays. Horses did change a lot back then – lanes, traffic signals, culture, social strata…
Coz animals need more teeth
These creatures were here before us and if we are not careful, they are gonna be here after us.. Hair-raising lines from the trailer of Jurassic World: Final Kingdom, aren’t…
The Silent Farts of Humanity
There is rock, there is bottom and then there is another black hole hidden slyly beneath that bottom too. That’s the state of our indifferent and reckless treatment of the…
Screw-driving the iPhone! Can we — Really?
Tucked inconspicuously, unlike the screw we are about to introduce, in the hot climes of North India is a cool town called Falna. Cool for being a town that could…
Dare to Repair? Let’s try Steelmanning
Greed. Twisted Capitalism. An Orwellian farm jarring with bleeps (not bleats). Pretzel-ite Consumerism. May be even Caveat Venditor. There are many straws that we can use here. And if they run…
Forget Bang for Your Buck. Look out for Pangs
Ever scratched your head and wallet over sustainable-investing? Ever thought that stock-buy-outs, advisors and investment products, how CEOs perceive the investor-community, the link between economic-growth and debt-levels, the way ESG…
Cocktails and Climate Change. Glass Half-Full now?
Handling clouds that trap IR radiation is brilliant. So is using Solar Geo-engineering to inject sulfate aerosol. On paper, that is. But what if we shake them both together? Would…
Capping Carbon: Shall we be Cautious or Badass?
Now that we are past the 410 ppm CO2 line annually, what will make us meet Climate Goals: Cutting emissions in half every 15 years? Or Negative Emissions? Can we…
Not everyone can travel To Bhutan
A door swings open. The wheels are turning hot. You know you can’t be standing on the kerb for too long. It’s either here or there. The last minute call…
Saving the Whale Shark — No Room for Ahabs
There she blows,” was sung out from the mast-head. “Where away?” demanded the captain. “Three points off the lee bow, Sir.” “Raise up your wheel. Steady!” “Steady Sir.” “Mast-head ahoy!…
Tips for Eco-Tourists
Its easy to chant the poems of environment and have heated conversations about the fate of future generations over a coffee. But its not easy to imbibe that eco-concern and…
Corporates flushing out sanitation ignorance
As the United Nations observed World Toilet Day on 19 November, calling for action to touch a huge 2.4 billion people who living without a toilet across the world; corporates…
Hunger, ideas and food: All under the hood
Some know Neel Ghose as the Vice President of International Operations at Zomato. Some know him as that pal in the finance batch of the Shriram College of Commerce and…
The half-full glass of World Environment Day
It’s easy to have ulcers and nightmares about Climate Change and days like June 5th (World Environment Day) give it a ceremonious excuse too. But what if we looked at…
So you think you are a responsible “Planet-Lover”? Care to test that NOW?
Weirdly enough prayers tend to be more sincere in hospitals than in Churches. Like kisses happen to be more sincere at airports than in wedding halls. You know what else…
Going back in Circles, are we?
In Scene 3. 37 in the play Acadia, Thomasina prods Septimus by saying: “Every week I plot your equations dot for dot, x’s against y’s in all manner of algebraical…
Would Koms and Moms survive these Pom-Poms?
More often than not the first thing that catches one’s eye or sixth-sense when looking at a woman suffering from domestic abuse, is not the scar, or the blood or…