There is something deeply unfair about the climate crisis. The people who consume the most energy may not be the ones running from floods. The people who built industries powered by fossil fuels may not be the ones watching glaciers collapse above their villages. The people living thousands of kilometres away from the Himalayas may […]
Every few months, a news report says handloom weaving is disappearing. The usual explanation is that young people don’t want handmade cloth anymore, that power looms are faster, that machines have won. This explanation is comfortable. It is also wrong. Handloom is not dying from lack of demand. It is dying from two failures that
Every day, we are told that the future belongs to technology. Artificial Intelligence is writing code, diagnosing diseases, creating art, and transforming businesses. Electric vehicles are replacing petrol-powered cars. Hydrogen is being hailed as the fuel that could power the next industrial revolution. Humans are planning missions to Mars, building quantum computers, and dreaming of
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Walk into any mall in Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kochi, or Delhi today, and you will notice something fascinating. The racks never seem empty. Every week, new collections arrive. Every month, hundreds of fresh designs replace the old ones. Fashion has become as disposable as a social media post. A dress seen on Instagram today appears
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Every day we hear about charities receiving donations from individuals, support from companies through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and even grants from international organisations. We admire the schools they build, the hospitals they support, the lives they transform, and the communities they uplift. Yet very few people ever stop to ask an important question: what
The global fashion industry has mastered one thing brilliantly: scale. But in doing so, it has quietly normalized exploitation—of resources, of labor, and of truth itself. The book Reset Fashion forces us to confront an uncomfortable reality: sustainability today is often more branding than belief. At the heart of the problem lies a system addicted
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Bengaluru’s Snitch now lets you resell old shirts through Relove. One Less is designing single-fibre basics with a buy-back scheme. VIRGIO is building on recommerce. Canvaloop is spinning textiles out of agri-residue. The headlines are glossy, the founders are articulate, and Gen Z is nodding along on Instagram. Good. Now let us be honest about
Repair, Resell, Relove: India’s Circular Fashion Era — Or a Circle We Already Broke? Read More »
🌍 THE INVISIBLE FIRE: Let’s be brutally honest. This is not normal summer. This is not “April-May heat”. This is something else entirely. When even a traditionally humid, coastal, green state like Kerala starts touching 40°C, you know something is deeply broken. And the culprit? A dangerous cocktail of: 🌊 El Niño (Pacific Ocean disruption)
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💰 There’s something deeply unsettling about watching corporate applause while the world burns—literally. When oil prices rise during war, it’s not just a market reaction. It’s a signal. A signal that somewhere, supply chains are broken, economies are shaken… and human lives are being lost. Recent conflicts involving Iran have disrupted global oil supply routes like
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A viral video shows factory workers wearing head-mounted cameras, recording every hand movement as they stitch garments. At first glance, it feels unsettling. Almost like a scene from a sci-fi movie—humans quietly documenting their own skills… for machines to learn later. So the big question naturally hits: Are these workers unknowingly training robots to replace
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