Key Points
As smoke and dust envelop Delhi-NCR like the start to a perverse season between autumn and winter again, it may be time to set new rules for business that could take inspiration from slow cycling - that racing sport where the person who comes last, without letting the cycle 'fall', is the winner..
AQI - air quality index - has, of course, already become part of the regular lexicon..
The dictionary definition of 'infrastructure' has it as 'the basic physical and organisational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise'..
Attributed to a typo spotted by energy efficiency guru Amory Lovins in a Colorado state report in 1989, negawatt is a powerful idea that now needs equivalents in water, air and similar things in which less of the negative could be seen as more of the positive...
The bigger-is-better boys are best soothed by numbers that appear greater, even if what we are really after is something smaller like less dust in the air..
