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How Businesses Are Becoming Partners in Development Corporate Social Responsibility has become an important part of India’s social-development landscape. India was the first country to legally mandate CSR spending for qualifying companies through Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013. Over the following decade, corporate giving has evolved from relatively ad-hoc donations towards more structured […]

India has always had a strong tradition of daan and seva. What is changing today is the way giving is being organised, planned and directed towards long-term social development. According to the India Philanthropy Report 2026, India’s total social-sector funding grew at approximately 13% annually between FY2020 and FY2025, reaching around ₹27 lakh crore in

Just about a week for those magic machines to tell us where India is headed- decisively or otherwise..

While the growth story of our nation shall continue, whether or not Mr Modi is back to power, yet a GDP growth or any fiscal deficit number is never a reflection of how great a nation is, or how great a nation would be.

In terms of the GDP numbers, India would grow irrespective, and in fact -inspite, of certain political dispensations at centre. That’s because of a strong and, maybe good-maybe bad, robust bureaucracy. However, growth numbers in this century are far too integrated with the global developments than they ever were. Trump’s eureka moments and Eurozone hiccups have far more impact on domestic numbers that they ever did.

While the world is still reflecting on Vajpayee’s legacy- between my travels- I couldn’t stop myself from comparing the legacy left behind by ABV and the huge impact BJP’s second prime minister, Mr Modi has been busy creating. ABV was absolutely, most certainly, the tallest statesman Indian politics ever saw. (Pic courtesy Zee News) Far