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Mental health in the workplace

Continuing my occasional writing stint at the widely read Indian Economy blog, I have written today a post about a topic still not openly …
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Health and the Indian Economy

As a guest blogger at the Indian Economy blog, I have written today about the importance of health to keeping the Indian economy’s boomtimes …
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A hierarchy of freedoms: Are we slipping down it?

An insurance company’s TV advertisement in the UK asks ‘When is a good deal not a good deal?’, and then actors portrayed as customers, …
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How green is my supermarket (and other shopping)?

In my earlier posts on the matter, both here and on my other blog, I wondered aloud about whether, and when a leading store …
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How green is my supermarket?

What can I say? The only reason there are so many ‘green’ posts one after the other is that one can scarcely switch on …
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How un-green is my luxury shopping?

Those of you, who, like me, seek a dose of frivolity and gossip once in a while, will have noticed the brouhaha surrounding the …
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Square Mile Wi-Fi

Savvy readers may know that the Financial District in London, shorthand The City, is just a square mile of space, hence the oft-used name …
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Redux: the global warming "band" wagon

Warning: Contains some scatological references; please do not read if offended easily by mention of or reference to bodily functions. More from Sheryl Crow, …
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Turn on, tune in, stay tuned...

This mantra, a variation on the pithy line created by Timothy O’Leary to promote the counter-culture in the 1960s, appears to be re-emerging. But …
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Stem cells to the left of them, stem cells to the right of them..

This has truly been a month for Stem Cells so far. For me, this meant a collection of news headlines slowly piling up in …
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