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Bombay Bandh

John Elkington · 5 July 2010 · Leave a Comment

Bandh clears the roads Bandh clears the roads Bridge Bridge and skyline After the guests have gone After the guests (or most of them) had gone

We are in India working on a new project with Bayer MaterialScience – and spend the morning at their Mumbai offices, hosted by Stefaan Gerlich. Later on, we do a teleconference with Kishor Chaukar of Tata Industries, who I know as a fellow member of the Board of the Global Reporting Initiative. We had intended to meet face-to-face, but the nation-wide strike (or Bandh) today makes travelling to some parts of the city difficult – or impossible.

In the evening, after the Bandh has wound down, we head across town to a dinner organised by Rajni (Bakshi) and hosted by Manjeet Kirpalani, who used to be the bureau chief of BusinessWeek, and is now co-founder of Gateway House, a fascinating new think-tank. Rajni’s new book, Bazaars, Conversations and Freedom, is available from Amazon, here.

Manjeet is on the far right in the final photograph above, while Richard Northcote and Azita Owlia of BMS, our companions on this trip are respectively far left and third from the left. Amy is in the pink – if I can trust my Leica. I’m looking rather formal. Outside, it was raining heavily. A wonderful welcome to this extraordinary city, happily at one remove from the agitations of today’s Bandh.

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I began this blog with an entry reporting on a visit to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, on 30 September 2003. The blog element of the website has gone through several iterations since, with much of the older material still available.

Like so many things in my life, blog entries blur the boundaries between the personal and the professional. As explained on this site’s Home Page, the website and the blog are part platform for ongoing projects, part autobiography, and part accountability mechanism.

In addition, my blogs have appeared on many sites such as: Chinadialogue, CSRWire, Fast Company, GreenBiz, Guardian Sustainable Business, and the Harvard Business Review.

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John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development. He is currently Founding Partner and Executive Chairman of Volans, a future-focused business working at the intersection of the sustainability, entrepreneurship and innovation movements.

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