I believe India has the correct attitude to patents, particularly drug patents. Set the bar high. Something must be truly innovative, not just an existing concept that has been slightly reworked ...

My father, the reluctant traveller, has shown me that what matters is only doing the things you are genuinely interested in.

Abolishing sex work or deeming it illegal will only drive it underground, undermining the rights of women in sexwork without upholding the rights of those being trafficked.

Are we then slowly becoming a nation full of thieves?

To become water-wise, people need granular data. Aquifers can be mapped within five years with smart, crowd-sourced, ground-up information, obtained with satellite data.

We can add millions of hectares to irrigated land without building a single new dam. We just need to adopt a different method of managing the water already stored in them.

We need to return to an agriculture that is completely devoid of the use of poisons and poisonous and poisoned plants, which is something we did for thousands of years.

“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings, and all beings in his own self.” - Buddha

For those earning more than Rs 30,000 pm to become sustainable their total emissions would have to be halved ...