Occupy Wall Street: what would Mahatma Gandhi say?
Corbis (From Outlook, June 06, 2011) Ruchira Gupta at The Guardian: As a citizen of India, and as a citizen of the world we all inhabit, I offer one of Gandhi’s most basic ideas to those Occupying Wall...
View ArticleThe Future of Manufacturing
In January 2011, the Forum created the Future of Manufacturing project to serve as a high-level cross-industry platform for executives and policy-makers to build strategic insights into the key...
View ArticleThe Bank of the Future: The Children’s Development Khazana, a banking system...
Ram Singh, 17, earns just one dollar from the 100 cups of tea he makes every day outside Delhi railway station, but each evening, after packing up, he goes to the bank and deposits nearly half of it....
View ArticleSocial Science Information journal – Special issue: Diasporas on the Web (2012)
“One of the major changes affecting diasporas the world over since the 1980s has been the increasing number of communities scattered throughout physical space, along with new forms of presence,...
View ArticleCity Archives – Tasveer Journal
The Tasveer Journal is an online magazine for photography in India. New articles are added each week showcasing work from the 19th century to today – contributed and contextualised by our network of...
View ArticleMatchboxes from the Subcontinent
Matt Lee: “Walking around Bangalore city where I live, one comes across matchboxes everywhere. Cheap and disposable, they litter the highways and footpaths, often to be found scattered around any...
View ArticleCradle of Civil Disobedience: Gandhi Before India
At the end of the 19th century, Mohandas Gandhi was a young lawyer living in Durban, South Africa. He left his house in Beach Grove every morning for an office on Mercury Lane, where he spent much of...
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