Divya Shekhar

Forbes India • 26/06/2024

Cover Story: Great Power, Great Responsibility

India is seeing a record demand for power, spurred both by economic activity and the climate crisis. Power companies are expanding their renewables capacity, even as the country's dependence on coal is on the rise. How are they managing the transition?

Forbes India • 21/06/2024

Interview: Espen Mehlum, World Economic Forum

Speaking about the WEF's recently released report Fostering Effective Energy Transition, Mehlum discusses the progress India has made in clean energy transition, and what more needs to be done

ForbesIndia • 07/12/2023

Interview: Raghuram Rajan and Rohit Lamba

Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan and economist Rohit Lamba talk about the choices India needs to make to achieve the economic growth it has envisioned. Their new book, Breaking the Mould, releases today

Forbes India • 27/06/2024

India Needs To Create Jobs, And They Have To Be Green

As the government works on job creation, an important focus will be to create new jobs that are climate- and sustainability-focused, and upskill the existing workforce to keep up with the country's ambitious green transition goals

Forbes India • 12/09/2024

Inside India's Largest Power Transmission Utility

In his first exclusive interview since taking over the largest electric power transmission utility in the country, RK Tyagi discusses the high-stakes projects under the Power Grid Corporation of India, and why the future of transmission will have India looking both inwards and at faraway lands

Forbes India • 23/07/2024

Analysis: Budget 2024-25 & India's Energy Transition Roadmap

India's Union Budget 2024-25 underlined the government's energy security and transition targets. Is it enough?

Forbes India • 05/12/2024

Cover Story: The Early-mover Of India's Solar Energy Journey

In 1995, Surender Saluja took an early bet on solar energy. Nearly 30 years on, his company Premier Energies, under son Chiranjeev, is reaping the rewards

Forbes India • 11/05/2023

Philanthropy and mental health

India is at the starting point of understanding mental health and making services accessible to people. While the government has a huge role to play, we need more philanthropists in this space, and they need to do better

ForbesIndia • 12/03/2024

'There Are Not Enough People Working In Climate': Helen Clarkson

The global CEO of international non-profit Climate Group in an exclusive interaction about how India is playing an important role globally in encouraging the transition to renewable energy, given the country’s recent commitment to triple its renewable energy capacity by 2030

Forbes India • 05/06/2020

India's green conundrum

The government wants to fast-track environment clearances to promote ease of doing business, but this might cause irreversible damage to biodiversity

Forbes India • 29/05/2020

India Needs To Focus On Water To Fight Covid-19

Public health during the pandemic depends on access to clean water for all, and as the summer intensifies, India needs to refocus on measures for long-term, sustainable water security

Forbes India • 28/05/2021

HCQ to Ivermectin: India has got it wrong in Covid-19 treatment

There are drugs that continue to be on the health ministry's treatment protocol despite evidence not inspiring confidence, while the regulator is approving medicines without following due scientific process, experts say

Forbes India • 29/09/2023

When Will Indian CSR Come Of Age?

The priorities of corporate giving are changing, one example of which is reduced funding towards education and increased priority to environment, as per recent MCA data. Companies are trying to make more long-term bets, but there's more to be done to make this money count

Forbes India • 24/03/2022

When Bias Is Good

Inside Rainmatter Foundation's "climate bias" and the inner workings of the $100 million initiative by Zerodha, on how it aims to create better adoption, ecosystem-building, and collaboration to help climate efforts become mainstream

Forbes India • 18/03/2024

Zarina and Ronnie Screwvala's model for rural development

Their efforts to lift people out of poverty are showing results in Raigad and Nashik in Maharashtra. Now, they want to take the Swades model to other regions

Forbes India • 08/06/2023

Will women continue to play a price for workplace flexibility?

High attrition of women in the IT industry says a lot about the lingering ghost of gender roles and lack of flexible policies. Companies can, and must, do better

ForbesIndia • 17/05/2024

Atul Satija Wants To Make Building Social Enterprises And NGOs "cool"

The/Nudge Institute, which has enabled hundreds of social enterprises and non-profits scale up their impact, was formed by Satija after he quit his high-paying corporate career to build solutions for poverty alleviation and livelihoods

Forbes India • 24/06/2021

Long Covid: 'Public health crisis within the pandemic'

Many people experience debilitating physical and mental health symptoms for months post Covid-19 recovery. While companies have to do their bit for employees, there needs to be larger concerted public policy initiatives to create awareness

Forbes India • 06/05/2021

Inside the reshaping of CSR in India during Covid-19

With the recent amendments to CSR rules, a gruesome second coronavirus wave and reduced corporate performance due to the pandemic, social responsibility spend for companies is not going to be the same this fiscal

Forbes India • 19/04/2024

Philanthropy For Mental Health Should Focus More On Community-led Models

A new report by the Centre for Asian Philanthropy India analyses the funding landscape towards mental health in the country, and how knowledge and resource gaps can be bridged to mobilise donors

Forbes India • 18/07/2019

Paani Ka Passbook: How Drought-hit Marathwada Villages Are Budgeting Every Drop

Farmers in the Maharashtra region are leading the efforts to practice community-based water governance

The Economic Times • 22/06/2018

Can't waste a drop: Is Bengaluru really running out of water?

A recent NITI Aayog report says that unreliable and insufficient data on water sources is the hurdle for infrastructure and policy-development for water.

Forbes India • 22/03/2022

India's Richest Give Less Than 1% Of Their Wealth To Philanthropy, But There Is A Ray Of Hope

Younger philanthropists, with tech entrepreneurs in the lead, are making thoughtful social investments, says the India Philanthropy Report 2022. While the country's super-rich need to push the envelope of giving, we also need to build an ecosystem that incentivises philanthropy

Forbes India • 14/07/2023

Can India's Social Stock Exchange flourish where others have failed?

If global precedents of using capital markets for social impact are anything to go by, India faces a tall order ahead