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What has changed 10 years after 2012 Delhi bus rape?

Have reforms in India's rape laws since Delhi gang rape in 2012 really worked?

Is pay parity a game-changer for Indian women cricketers?

Will men and women receiving the same match fees help change patriarchal attitudes?

How to deal with layoffs

What is the best way for companies and employees to handle mass job losses?

Is India ready for same-sex marriages?

What discrimination do LGBTQ+ people still face in India?

How can India add more women to its workforce?

Is it possible to have a more diverse employee pool in both formal and informal sectors?

How easily can women access abortion in India?

Will a landmark ruling change attitudes about women's reproductive rights?

How to tackle India’s pill-popping culture

Are Indians over-using antibiotics?

The challenges of India’s microfinance sector

Are micro-loans a lifeline for those in need, or a gateway to a cycle of debt?

'Quiet quitting' at the workplace

The idea of withdrawing yourself from overwork has gained intense media attention

Making India’s roads safer

India’s roads are regarded as being among the most dangerous in the world

What’s behind rising suicides among India’s daily wagers?

What does a disturbing statistic reveal about life for some of India's poorest people?

Is the startup party over in India?

Funding is drying up for Indian startups - what's behind the downturn?

Can India afford freebie culture?

Can India draw the line between welfare schemes, subsidies and freebies?

Bringing the cheetah back to India

Can an ambitious project to reintroduce the world's fastest land mammal to India succeed?

75 years of Indian independence: Reliving memories

Telling the stories of partition

Why are so many Indians moving abroad?

What’s shaping migration trends in India?

How is luxury fashion changing in India?

Younger generations of luxury consumers are bringing in new trends

The emerging trend of egg freezing in India

Despite social stigma, the procedure is emerging as a growing trend in urban areas

Eating out: Should service charge be mandatory?

Will removing a service charge hurt an already suffering industry?

Should companies practice pay transparency?

Should you be able to find out how much your colleagues earn?

Why are Indians getting fatter?

Obesity increased by more than 4% in both men and women in India in the last five years

How can brands avoid rainbow washing?

Are corporate Pride Month campaigns cashing in or making meaningful change?

Is Islamophobia hurting India’s global image?

Reports of rising Islamophobia and hyper-nationalism are posing serious concerns

The resilience of India’s acid attack victims

What does it take to recover from a shocking form of violent attack?

The cost of India’s food nationalism

What could be the consequences of protectionist food policies?

Cricket: Does IPL need to reinvent itself?

What's behind the fall in TV viewership for one of the world's richest leagues?

What’s behind India’s power crisis?

Despite large coal reserves, India is often on the brink of a power crisis

Social media perils for aspiring artists

The majority of streamed music in India is consumed through social media sites or apps

Will safety concerns derail India’s push for electric vehicles?

A spate of fire incidents in electric two-wheelers has raised severe safety concerns.

How to deal with body shaming

What are the different ways to tackle body image concerns and disorders?

How is India exploring the metaverse?

Does India have the right technology and bandwidth to develop the metaverse?

Should the state be policing food choices?

Calls for a meat ban during a Hindu religious festival sparked fierce debate

How can India tackle its heatwave challenge?

Over the last few decades, India has seen a consistent rise in heatwave conditions

Where does the Russia-Ukraine war leave India?

What is driving India’s policy on the international stage?

How can India deal with the global chip crisis?

The shortage of semiconductors has resulted in huge disruptions for several industries

How to deal with war trauma

More than three million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began

Getting employees back to the office

In the last two years, the world has become accustomed to remote working

Should India criminalise marital rape?

There is a growing clamour for criminalising forced sex in a marriage

Indian women in sports: The making of a champion

India’s finest sportswomen and the sweat, grit and struggle in their personal journeys

Hijab row: Should India’s colleges have a dress code?

An escalating row over the hijab has highlighted India’s sharpening religious divide

How can India tackle the jobs crisis?

Can India create enough jobs to meet its people's needs?

What’s prompting online misogyny?

India’s online space has seen an alarming rise in harassment of women during the pandemic

How is digital campaigning shaping India’s elections?

Five states in India are headed to regional ballots in the coming weeks

How is India dealing with its Covid third wave?

A sharp surge in cases has made India’s key cities brace for the pandemic’s third wave

How to plan for your retirement

What mindset should you have as you plan for your retirement?

How are India’s women entrepreneurs breaking through?

What needs to be done to encourage more women to break through barriers?

How to choose the perfect gift

What's the most important thing to consider when buying someone a present?

The rise of K-wave in India

Why is Korean pop culture making inroads in India?

How is rental fashion kicking off in India?

The challenges facing the fashion rental business in India

How is talent migration affecting India’s workforce?

How easy or difficult is it to make the switch to an entirely new skillset?

Should children learn to code at a young age?

Tech-savvy kids are getting into coding in increasingly large numbers

Escaping Delhi's toxic air

Should the government take stricter action against pollution?

How can more women join politics in India?

How can there be better representation of women from grassroots to the highest roles?

Reviving tourism in post-pandemic India

The beleaguered tourism sector in India is showing initial signs of revival

How is India switching to renewable energy?

What benefits, risks and challenges does India face?

How can India, Inc. be a part of the space race?

Can India tap into the increasingly lucrative space industry?

How to make your CV stand out

What is the secret to getting invited for an interview?

How to ask for a pay hike

What are the common mistakes employees make when asking for a raise?

How to trend on social media

What are the pressures of dealing with internet fame?

What’s the future of digital art?

Is this a bubble in the making, or is NFT art here to stay?

LGBTQ+: How inclusive are Indian workplaces?

Do corporate India’s policies tackle real representation, or are they mere tokenism?

How to prevent gaming addiction in children

What impact can excessive gaming have on young people?

Afghan crisis: Should India get a refugee policy?

Is it time for India to formulate a national refugee protection framework?

How has the pandemic changed Bollywood?

India’s film industry has suffered losses worth billions of dollars

Bridging the learning gap

Is it time to rethink education?

India-Pakistan love stories

Would love beyond borders conquer collective prejudices?

What’s behind India’s extreme weather events?

Does India need to rethink its approach to extreme weather?

Does India need a two-child policy?

Uttar Pradesh has unveiled a controversial bill to curb population growth

How to deal with a bully boss

How should bullying at work be dealt with?

What's the future of drones in India?

Are drones about to become a more common sight in India's skies?

Covid crisis: Does 'burnout leave' work?

Many companies are offering employees extra periods of leave to avoid getting burned out

The gender gap in India's vaccination drive

How can India bridge the gender divide in its vaccination programme?

Covid: India's child malnutrition crisis

An estimated 115 million children in India are said to be at risk of malnutrition

How are Indian businesses facing the Covid challenge?

The survival strategies of Indian businesses facing the Covid challenge in-depth

Fighting India’s Covid infodemic

What role should government and tech companies play in tackling Covid misinformation?

Tackling India’s black fungus crisis

A rare and deadly fungal infection is affecting patients recovering from Covid

How is Covid impacting India’s children?

What can be done to ensure that children’s lives are not thrown into chaos?

How can rural India battle Covid?

What can be done to control the spread of the pandemic in rural areas?

How can India vaccinate its billion?

Why the world's biggest producer of vaccines is struggling to meet domestic demand

Tackling India’s oxygen crisis

What has led to India's crippling oxygen shortage?

How are health workers coping in India's fresh wave?

How is the pandemic affecting the health and wellbeing of India's health workers?

Why is India’s new Covid wave deadlier?

How can the impact of the new wave of infections be mitigated?

How to build a brand in the VUCA world

How should businesses tackle a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world?

How can India's economy handle new lockdowns?

A second wave of coronavirus cases threatens to derail both lives and livelihoods

Should women be paid for housework?

Unpaid domestic work in India is nearly 40% of the country’s GDP, according to estimates

How to overcome vaccine hesitancy

Why do some people have concerns about taking the coronavirus vaccine?

How to train your brain

Is there a way to train the brain to learn things faster?

How to make a career comeback

How people have reinvented themselves amid challenging times

How to deal with online trolling

Three women who have faced vicious online trolling discuss solutions to the problem

Ready for a zero waste lifestyle?

Tips for making your life more environmentally responsible

How can sports be a gamechanger for women?

Can young women athletes follow genuine career pathways in professional sports?

'Love jihad': Is love bound by religion?

How hard is it to have an interfaith relationship in India?

How to tackle racism in sport

Olympians discuss this pressing issue. Warning: This programme contains racial slurs

How to build a billion-dollar startup

Three Indian entrepreneurs share their struggles, successes and tips on building a startup

Whose data is it anyway?

Should you be made more aware of who is using your data, and where?

Re-energising your reading regime

Tips for getting you and your family reading

How to stay fit in the pandemic

As 2021 begins, what are some of the most pressing fitness requirements?

Are we ready for the passion economy?

Will innovation and passion shape the economy of the future?

The rise of India's kid influencers

Young social media stars tell us their stories

Holidaying in a pandemic

What is the new normal in planning a holiday?

Why are India’s farmers angry?

Farmers are protesting at new government laws that they say are against their interests

How to make it big in India's music industry

How hard is it for musicians to make money outside the Bollywood system?

India's vaccination drive against Covid-19

How daunting a challenge is it to vaccinate more than a billion people?

How is Covid impacting the future of work?

How will we work, live and thrive in a post-pandemic future?

How is India celebrating digital Diwali?

Are online sales giving struggling retailers the boost they need?

Indian Premier League cricket: The new normal

What does this season's IPL reveal about the future of the sport?

Is intolerance impacting businesses in India?

With religious polarization rising, are businesses beginning to face the heat?

Overcoming imposter syndrome at work

Can we figure out a way to overcome the underlying fear of being fake?

What is the future of dining out?

Months of lockdown have harshly affected India’s food & beverages industry

How can India be made safer for women?

What can be done to check sexual violence against women in India?

India’s growing education divide

What can the government do to offer better infrastructure and learning services?

The environmental cost of recovery

Can India balance growth with protection of its environment?

How can India revive growth?

The country has announced a nearly 24 per cent slump in its economy

How has Covid impacted India’s digital divide?

How are people in rural areas coping as the online world grows in importance?

Lockdown gigs: Performing in a pandemic

With the touring circuit effectively shut down, how are India's performers adapting?

Is Covid forcing women out of jobs in India?

What changes can be made to increase female participation in the workforce?

Bollywood: The hidden cost of stardom

What are the positives and the pitfalls that aspiring actors endure?

How is Covid changing young India?

How are young Indians coping with uncertainty about the future?

How to avoid work-from-home burnout

Remote workers are reporting emotional and physical exhaustion, anxiety and stress

Caste bias in Silicon Valley: India's unwanted export

How caste bias has become an uncomfortable reality for many Indians migrating to the US

How are India’s lavish weddings changing under lockdown?

How is one of the world's biggest wedding industries adapting to social distancing?

Is American education losing its charm for Indian students?

Does an overseas degree remain a top pick for Indian students?

How can India beat colourism?

Is India doing enough to tackle prejudice towards darker-skinned people?

How can India manage its labour crisis?

How should India's government help jobless workers and struggling businesses?

Can India afford to boycott Chinese products?

How would a boycott of Chinese goods affect India's economy?

How can Bollywood survive the coronavirus pandemic?

As India's Hindi film industry gets ready to resume production, what will have to change?

How are India’s healthcare systems tackling the coronavirus crisis?

What could be done better to handle the situation?

As India unlocks, how will it protect its workers’ rights?

Will diluting labour laws revamp the economy or create a labour crisis?

How will airlines survive the coronavirus pandemic?

How will the pandemic impact the way people fly?

Managing work-life after lockdown

What does the future hold for employers and employees in India?

How can sports survive the coronavirus outbreak?

What will be the new normal in the sporting world?

Coronavirus lockdown: Lessons in tackling pollution?

Are there lessons the pandemic can teach us about living with nature?

How is the coronavirus crisis hitting India’s farmers?

Is the country's food security under threat?

How can coronavirus-hit India get back in business?

Are India’s coronavirus-hit businesses ready for a comeback?

Coronavirus lockdown: Impact on influencer economy

How is India's lockdown affecting people who make their money from social media?

Parenting during coronavirus lockdown

With India on coronavirus lockdown, are families feeling the strain?

India lockdown: Plight of the migrant labourers

What is the government doing to help labourers trying to return to their villages?

Social distancing: Changing the way we work

How does working from home change the way we work?

The future of coworking spaces

In light of the coronavirus outbreak, is shifting to the remote office the new normal?

How safe is your money in the bank?

There are fears India's banks are under stress with insufficient safety nets in place

Being a Muslim woman in India

India has more than 90 million Muslim women. Some say they are anxious about their future

Coronavirus: The hidden impact

What measures is India taking to ensure complete preparedness?

India’s vanishing wildlife

Rapid urbanisation and deforestation are endangering some of India's best loved species

Finding love, differently

The changing faces of romance in India

Women in sports: Changing the game

How many barriers do India's female athletes still have to break?

Closing the wealth gap

What's the best way to greater equality and faster growth?

What young India wants

Are young Indians' rising aspirations being met with equal opportunities?

Fighting for dignity and inclusion

How can India ensure dignity and inclusion for people living with disabilities?

How to manage your money

Expert advice on how to make the most of your money in 2020

Is the streaming revolution changing Bollywood?

Remember when you planned your day so you could catch your favourite show on television?

Transforming transgender lives

What can be done to make society more inclusive towards transgender people?

Pollution: How are people surviving the toxic air?

What can be done to make Delhi's air cleaner?

How to avoid a cyber scam

What's the best way to protect your money in the digital age?

Is India ready for plus-size fashion?

It's a lucrative sector of the fashion market, but will Indian brands embrace plus-size?

How can we revive consumer confidence?

How significant are India's current consumer trends?

How is the mobile revolution transforming India?

Can digital inclusion be achieved across the whole country?

What's holding women back in the field of science?

A special edition from the India Economic Summit in Delhi

Are we ready to ban single-use plastic?

Is India ready to embrace a life without single-use plastic products?

Should your daily commute be counted as work?

How can employers make the daily commute less painful and more productive?

Would a vape ban work?

Is the Indian government's ban on e-cigarettes likely to improve public health?

How can we stop desertification?

A problem that's putting India's agricultural land at risk

How big is the business of the big, fat Indian wedding?

What do Indian couples want from their weddings in 2019?

Women in sport: A fair playing field?

Girls who are challenging tradition by playing sport encounter prejudice at every step

The hidden world of modern slavery

An estimated 40 million people globally are subjected to modern forms of slavery

What can India do to beat an economic slowdown?

After years of fast-paced growth, India’s economy is losing steam and growth has slowed

Should India embrace cryptocurrencies?

There are over two thousand kinds of cryptocurrencies - but many are wary of the risks

Should commercial surrogacy be banned?

India has been known as a hub of commercial surrogacy but the government is cracking down

Mental health: Tackling workplace depression

How can workplaces better support employees' mental health?

E-mobility: Is India's future electric?

Will electric cars help tackle India's pollution problem?

Is Indian space commerce ready for lift-off?

Is India on the right path to becoming a global space superpower?

Can India become a $5 trillion economy?

Will the Indian government be able to achieve its ambitious economic goals?

How can India tackle its water crisis?

Twenty-one of India’s major cities may run out of ground water as early as 2020

Can India afford healthcare for all?

India is facing a health crisis that says a lot about the state of its healthcare systems

Pride month: Can 'pink money' take off in India?

Big businesses are eager to tap into the spending power of India's LGBTQ+ community

Oceans Day: Is the Blue Economy viable?

Can India sustainably develop its marine resources?

How is money changing cricket?

Cricket is now a lucrative sport, with broadcast rights selling for billions of dollars

Elections verdict: What's next for India?

What does Narendra Modi's victory mean for India's future

E-sports: More than just a game?

As e-sports gain popularity in India, fears around mental health and addiction run high

Is India a happy nation?

Why is India ranked as one of the world's least happy countries?

Can India create enough jobs?

How much of a problem does India have with unemployment?

What’s the digital cost of India’s elections?

Are digital campaigns changing the game in the world's biggest election?

What ails India’s airlines?

Why are Indian airlines making huge losses?

India elections: Should air pollution be a key issue?

Are politicians ignoring how polluted India's air has become?

Cow politics: Is it hurting the Indian economy?

Are arguments over the treatment of cows damaging India?

India elections: Does identity politics hinder development?

How important are the identity groups that we belong to?

How India’s women achievers are shutting down mansplaining

Kiran Bedi, Mansi Tripathy, and Vrinda Grover share tips on dealing with mansplaining

Menstruation: How can India tackle period poverty?

How can India break its taboos and myths around periods?

Recycling: Can India tackle its toxic trash?

What's the right way for India to deal with its waste management problem?

Technology: Is it changing the way we love?

Is putting data into dating a good idea?

Women in politics: Breaking barriers

How can politics be made more inclusive for women?

Innovation: Is India lagging behind?

Is India capable of becoming a world leader in science and innovation?

Offbeat careers: Worth the risk?

How do you turn a niche skill into a successful career?

Is it time to go cashless?

Online payments are widely used in cities. The story in rural India is quite different

Tackling poverty: Can affirmative action work?

Will a new policy to tackle poverty have any meaningful impact?

Employee to entrepreneur: Should you take the plunge?

Is 2019 the time to start your own company?

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

How can workplaces become harassment-free?

Does power dressing pay off?

How does what we wear affect the way we work?

Can entrepreneurship be taught?

Do you need a degree to become an entrepreneur?

Gig economy: The future, or exploitative?

Does the gig economy offer freedom or exploitation?

Influencers: Fast fame, but fast forgotten?

How do social media influencers earn a living - and how long will they be around for?

Should machines hire people?

Is artificial intelligence the future of recruitment?

What Women Want from the Workplace

Why are so few women in India in work?

Fighting Fake News

Its spread in India can be fatal, so how can it be stopped and whose job is it to try?