Remember your factory in your sustainability story
The last few years have seen brands globally on overdrive with their PR machinery, when it comes to sustainability. A large part of the focus has been on creating the next cheap-as-synthetic, fully-home-compostable, widely-available material. The PR firms, on the other hand, are seeing sustainable fashion as a lucrative gig. The nagging concern of not […]
The Challenge with Being a Socially Responsible Factory
The Rana Plaza incident happened in April 2013. This incident awoke the world to the poor labour conditions faced by workers in the ready-made garment sector in Bangladesh. Any brand whose label was found in the aftermath, among the debris, faced a lot of flak. As a result of this accident, for example, Disney decided […]
Ease of Doing Business in India – really?
I keep reading how things are getting easier in India, business-wise. I mean the powers-that-be are crying hoarse to make this point to anyone and everyone who will listen. I think it’s a bunch of good old-fashioned hogwash. Yeah, there are certain areas where I do see improvements. But that is almost always offset by […]