VK Saraswat | Vijay Kumar Saraswat

Who doesn’t need inspiration ? Sometimes we need inspiration right before we set up a new project or a new business, sometimes ideas to innovate are our biggest inspiration, sometimes we get inspired by the simplest of things, some other times by the greatest of men. I have, in my career, been blessed to have experienced both. Today, I sit here trying to get through this post without getting too emotional or nostalgic. It’s been exactly a year since Dr. Kalam’s tragic demise, a man who has been a mentor, a colleague, and a dear friend. This isn’t the first time I’ve chosen to write about him in my blog space, and this isn’t going to be the last either. Today, however, is a day on which I’d like to pay him a special tribute - for all that has been to the world, for all that he has been to the country, for all that he has been to science, for all that he has been to me. Dr. Kalam lived as an example to inspire and motivate his generation, to live up to the best of their potenti...

Meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the quality of future generations to meet their  needs, can be described as the simplest way to define sustainability. We talked about this in the previous post; balancing economic development, social equity and environmental protection help organisations move towards a sustainable standing. What about sustainability on the global scale ? Sustainability and sustainable development are about striking a balance between environmental concerns of natural resources, techno-economic systems and their development and societal concerns of human capital, and social expectations. A melange of all these systems leads to meeting our present needs without compromising on the needs of the future. This definition forms the basis for defining all categories of sustainabilities in different areas of human activities. Now, environmental sustainability may be seen as the ability of an ecosystem to maintain and progress...