Category: Archive
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Diversifying inclusion in the workplace
Striking a balance between “survival of the fittest” and “equal opportunities for all” is definitely a challenge in this capitalistic economy of ours. In board rooms dominated by discussions of profit margins and growth trajectories, the space for bringing in ideas and strategies that do not contribute such topics is indeed limited. However, over the…
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Big Data in Development: Opportunities for Public Policy
Commonly abbreviated as ICT4D, “Information and Communication Technologies for Development” is disrupting the manner in which governments and public affair organisations approach socio-economic development. The unprecedented increase of mobile phone usage and the rise in adoption of social networks has given us datasets which were non-existent and rather inconsequential a couple of decades ago. As…
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Do we really need formal education?
Over the past five years, Rashmi Bansal has grown on me as an author. Initially starting off as a fan of her “Author’s note”, I gradually started getting used to her writing style- simple and concise, with a bit of Hindi thrown in here and there. Her stories are of people- people like you and…
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The Stupid Common Man
Close your eyes for a moment. Shun away all random thoughts swimming in your head and visualize the face of the vegetable vendor down the street from your house whom you must have visited or at least crossed countless number of times while running errands for your mother. Now ask yourself, does that man, clad…
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Reflections, Realizations & Rediscovery
At the innocent age of five, I dreamed of becoming a teacher. At the ripe age of ten, I aspired to make it big as a doctor and when fifteen dawned, journalism seemed like the perfect choice. But today, as I stand eighteen years old I realize I am simply becoming what the world always…
Asra Yousuf 