Jai Kisan: empowering farmers to save the future
They say India is an agrarian economy. They say in India farmers are not just farmers but also a symbol of India’s history and tradition and values. They say in India agriculture is not just a profession but a sacred…
Gender parity in the workplace: Waking up to change
I recently saw a video posted on my LinkedIn feed featuring stand up comic Amit Tandon. In one of his segments, Tandon makes a fascinating case for why he believes women are more intelligent than men. (I'm with him on...
Dhrid Sankalp and a little help from the Universe
In my last post, I wrote about how we went after the Ranbaxy project in Nigeria because Brand India's reputation was at stake and delivering these project mattered to us We had everything in place. Project plan, shipments, logistics. The...
An inability to let go
I have never been able to resist doing something when I'm told the odds are impossible. My response is almost always primal. You can call it stubbornness, or a poorly developed sense of fear or just plain animal instinct. It...
Tech transfer: a viable solution to building pharmaceutical capability
Imagine a scenario where every nation in the world can meet its needs for essential medicines. Where irrespective of your financial status you have easy access to affordable medicines to address preventable and treatable illnesses. Sounds far-fetched, I know. Especially...
MOVFLO – a cleanroom innovation for the ages
At Fabtech, we’re always thinking of ways to make everything better. Whether it is streamlining processes, or reducing your overheads, or indeed, innovating, you will always find us ahead of the curve. Even when it comes to reimagining cleanroom infrastructure....
The LIFE ENGINEERING ethos
Treatable and preventable diseases affect the poorest among us. All over the world, infants, children and adults are dying. Needlessly. There are diseases that kill in the hundreds of thousands, wiping out entire families and even villages. Even if the...
The Life Engineering imperative
We're called mortals. All of us come with an expiry date. Mortality is a universal truth. But, like all truths, it has many versions. There are several million people who die every year whose deaths could have been prevented. Deaths...