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Rajni Bakshi

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What India's youth can learn from Gandhi
Rediff.com9 May 2017

'You are beginning your professional life in a time of global turmoil, when economic...

What Star Trek tells us about reaching out to others
Rediff.com25 Nov 2016

'In the lingo of Star Trek, how willing are we to keep all hailing frequencies open in...

Celebrating azaadi: Listening for the concern behind the complaint
Rediff.com10 May 2016

'We live in a time when hideous anger easily flares up, particularly on...

How climate change is related to market failure
Rediff.com4 Dec 2015

Columnist Rajni Bakshi asks if the louder responses to the climate crisis will be those...

Land acquisition and democracy
Rediff.com13 Mar 2015

Those who have a long-range mission of true nation-building will pay close attention to...

Why the world needs non-violence more than ever
Rediff.com15 Jan 2015

'Non-violence can be a viable tool for countering the competitive brutality of...

Tolerance as a duty is a pre-requisite to making India
Rediff.com12 Jan 2015

If democracy is to survive and thrive, duties have to be as important as rights and...

Climate Change: Looking for hope beyond Lima conference
Rediff.com22 Dec 2014

With the weaker-than-expected agreement at the recent Climate Change Conference at...

What the Sino-US climate deal means for India
Rediff.com14 Nov 2014

While India is pushed to keep a tight lid on its own carbon emissions, slow and low...

Why corporates must design projects to involve local populace
Rediff.com4 Nov 2014

Businesses that either take local communities for granted or see them as an obstacle to...

Why corporates must design projects to involve local populace
Rediff.com4 Nov 2014

Why corporates must design projects to involve local populace
Rediff.com4 Nov 2014

Businesses that either take local communities for granted or see them as an obstacle to...

Rich should degrow so poor can prosper
Rediff.com26 Sep 2014

Current forms of economic growth are widening disparities, leaving hundreds of millions...

B K S Iyengar, U R Ananthamurthy: India's beacons
Rediff.com28 Aug 2014

What B K S Iyengar and U R Ananthamurthy embodied was a cultural self-confidence. This...

Gandhi's 'Sarvodaya' philosophy can revive the Indian economy
Rediff.com13 Jun 2014

At present there is virtually no dialog between votaries of different various versions...

Medha and Meera: A glimpse of the future
Rediff.com24 Apr 2014

AAP candidates from Mumbai, Medha Patkar and Meera Sanyal, are poised to play a crucial...

Be wary of tall claims that a decisive leader can provide a quick fix
Rediff.com11 Apr 2014

'Elections don't offer easy or ideal choices. Voters may find there is no candidate...

The economics of happiness
Rediff.com17 Mar 2014

This does not mean isolating parochialism but of new way of thinking about economic...

Why Corporate Social Responsibility is the future for brands
Rediff.com28 Dec 2013

More and more CSR is being defined by how a company runs its operations and makes its...

GMOs - from war to dialog?
Rediff.com28 Nov 2013

Indian scientists who wrote to the PM last week are not entirely rejecting GMOs but...