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ESG Audit – Turning theory into Action
Although some natural resources like the sunrays are infinite, other major parts of the environment are not renewable and cannot be used...
Rupanjana De
Sep 4, 20225 min read
Board Diversity and its impacts: Lessons from global experience
Board Diversity The board of directors of a company plays the pivotal role in making strategic business decisions. To make their...
Rupanjana De
Aug 28, 20226 min read
Greenwashing – the new Window Dressing
To understand what ‘Greenwashing’ is, we must first know why at all we are talking about it today. Greenwashing is related to ESG...
Rupanjana De
Aug 21, 20224 min read
Risk Management Committee: Now recommended under Company Law too
Risk Management Committee is a committee formed to oversee the risk management policy and global risk management framework of a company....
Rupanjana De
Aug 14, 20223 min read
Issuing Restricted Stock Units and Stock Appreciation Rights to employees
The latest Report of the Company Law Committee presented in 2022 has recommended numerous changes in the Companies Act, 2013. Apart from...
Rupanjana De
Aug 7, 20223 min read
Revisiting the provisions of ‘Independent Director’ in the light of recent cases
An Independent Director, as the name suggests, is a third party individual who is supposed to be independent and not have any relations...
Rupanjana De
Jul 31, 20227 min read
Younger Boards and Start-ups: the role of professionals therein
It was recently reported that nearly 30% of all the Director Identification Numbers (DIN) allotted by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs...
Rupanjana De
Jul 24, 20225 min read
Emerging concept of Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) in India
In line with its motto of ‘Ease of Doing Business’ an SPAC is one of the newest alternative fundraising option that is all set to be...
Rupanjana De
Jul 17, 20226 min read
Mandatory ESG Reporting in India and COVID-19 as a catalyst for it
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every facet of the lives of people of this planet and at the same time brought to the...
Rupanjana De
Jul 10, 20224 min read
Re-Domiciliation of Companies
This is a concept alien to us in India. Corporate re-domiciliation is the process of shifting the domicile of a company (i.e. its place...
Rupanjana De
Jul 3, 20222 min read
Sustainable Investing approaches: ESG, SRI and Impact Investing
Investing is no longer about only the financial returns. A large number of socially motivated investors do want their money to fund...
Rupanjana De
Jun 26, 20225 min read
CSR Audit vs Corporate Responsibility Index
The Government of India is in the process of overhauling the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) framework. To ensure better compliance...
Rupanjana De
Jun 19, 20229 min read
Professional Liability Insurance for Company Secretaries
Introduction Professional liability insurance is a type of commercial liability insurance. It is meant for the protection of...
Rupanjana De
Jun 12, 202211 min read
Social Stock Exchanges: Scope for Professionals
Social Stock Exchange (SSE) is one of the newest concepts introduced in India by SEBI recently. It opens up a whole new horizon for...
Rupanjana De
May 29, 20226 min read
Corporate Governance - An Economic Perspective
“In a more globalized, interconnected and competitive world, the way that environmental, social and corporate governance issues are...
Rupanjana De
May 21, 202213 min read
ESG Compliance: Battle in the Boardroom
Oscar Wilde once aptly said “I forgot that little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and therefore what one has done in...
Dr. Paritosh Nandi
May 9, 20224 min read
Orangutan in the Board: A step further towards Board Diversity
In a path-breaking step towards increased Board-level diversity, Mun Kee Ma-Jik Bhd, a palm oil company in Malaysia recently appointed an...
Rupanjana De
Apr 7, 20224 min read
From ‘Comply or Explain’ to mandatory spending regime - A Paradign shift in Indian CSR law
When the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility was introduced in the Indian legal system through section 135 of the Companies Act,...
Rupanjana De
Mar 25, 20225 min read
Corporate Governance in Family Businesses
What is Corporate Governance? Corporate governance essentially involves balancing the interests of a company's many stakeholders, such as...
Rupanjana De
Jan 31, 20225 min read
10 steps to self publish your first book
Writing book you have had in mind for long and then sending the manuscript to publishers for traditional publishing, waiting months for...
Rupanjana De
Dec 29, 20214 min read
10 reasons to publish a book
For academicians and researchers, traditionally the motivating factor behind publishing books and articles in journals of acclaim is...
Rupanjana De
Nov 14, 20212 min read
The World, a melting pot of cultures
We live in a world that has 196 countries and hundreds of regions with distinct cuisines. The world is a melting pot of so many cultures,...
Rupanjana De
Jun 30, 20213 min read
Culinary diversity of India
Diversity is the true essence of India. There’s so much diversity in people, our languages, caste and communities, races and religion,...
Rupanjana De
May 12, 20213 min read
Mood management in the present scenario
Mankind is going through a very difficult time, probably the worst in the lifetime of all of us. To fight the situation and emerge as...
Rupanjana De
May 10, 20212 min read
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