BUSINESS
There’s no banking on banks
As COVID-19 has forced us to remain indoors, one would expect banking services to be professional and efficiently digital. It is also expected that banks facilitate doorstep banking for senior citizens as advocated by the RBI. The reality far from this
BUSINESS
Rebranding of fairness creams is a tiny step against colourism
More than renaming or withdrawing fairness products, what is urgently needed is a people’s movement against racism and colourism in India, which would necessarily be against casteism as well
POLITICS
Society | Is outrage about sexual assault the flip side of indifference?
What the intense focus on a few cases out of the tens of thousands of rapes across India every year (32,599 reported cases in 2017) obscures is that sexual assault is a pervasive and persistent pandemic that is not going to disappear thanks to the death penalty or ‘encounters’.
POLITICS
Opinion | #MeToo in India: A shock treatment that was long overdue
The #MeToo movement in India needs to move beyond high profile areas of work to also focus on sectors in which women (also men and transgenders) are even more vulnerable
