Giving businesses a humane face
``Before 1995, Ficci was doing a lot of work in the area of social development. But at a meeting chaired by the then HRD minister Madhav Rao Scindia, it was decided to set up a foundation to involve industry in a big way.'' That was 1995, and from thereon there was no looking back for Ficci.

Why the reservation issue is still open
It's paradoxical. Though Indira Gandhi was prime minister of India for as long as 17 years, there was no noticeable change in female literacy rates or maternal mortality rates.

Children as the baseline
Fifty years ago, after the Korean War had finished, an American doctor, Robert Pierce, who was travelling around the countryside, encountered an orphaned girl.


  Short Takes
  Triumph of innocence
  Distant dreams
  A double-edged sword