India Included by Godrej DEI Lab

The idea of social and economic justice wasn’t invented in a boardroom – it was dreamed up and fought for throughout the world. It’s what gives us in India our constitutional values. It’s part of the laws that Indian workplaces have to follow, and it’s something Indians take very seriously.

That’s how we come by our ideas of DEI. But what’s it like in the rest of the world? Today, Pa...

Every two or three years, McKinsey puts out a diversity and inclusion insights report with numbers that show how the case for growth and the case for workplace inclusion go hand in hand. Basically, if you’re the type of business leader who thinks that DEI is fluff, or that it gets in the way of your bottomline, or that it’s fuzzy social service stuff – you’re very last-to-last century. 

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It’s true that Indian women live longer, eat better, have more education and give birth to healthier children than they did before. But these modest gains come with a whole set of unprecedented challenges – whether at home, out in public, and, of course, in the workplace. And for some women, progress is more tenuous, and comes with fewer opportunities and more risk than many of their peers. 

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It’s one of the defining stories of India in the 21st century – the way women disappear from the workplace. In some sectors, it’s because they never get a foot in the door at all. In many others, it’s because they get married, move away, have children, and then find no way to get back to their careers. At the highest levels in corporate India, it’s simply about who gets acknowledged as a leader, who ge...

Throughout Indian film history, many filmmakers have been privately and secretly queer. Generations of movies, arts and entertainment have depicted LGBTQIA+ lives either for comedy or featuring queer people on the margins as villains or tragic figures. So who tells our stories, and what kind of characters get to be included in those stories? When those stories change, does it mean that the status quo is changing?

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Since 2020, every Tata Harrier and Tata Safari SUV has been assembled, start-to-finish, from scratch, by teams staffed fully by women. At their sprawling plant in Pimpri-Chinchwad, their workforce includes close to 2,000 women, from mechanics to engineers, many coming from the remotest corners of our home state, Maharashtra. What does it take to reshape an industry as massive and traditionally male-dominated as auto manufacturing?&...

Disability touches all our lives, whether through injury, age, or life’s unpredictable turns. Yet, accessibility remains a conversation too often centered on limitations rather than empowerment. How can we move beyond retrofitting solutions to creating a world where inclusivity is a way of life?

In this episode, Parmesh Shahani speaks to Nidhi Goyal and Apoorv Kulkarni. Nidhi is a stand-up comedian, disability and gend...

India Included is a Godrej DEI Lab podcast that dives into the transformative world of diversity, equity, and inclusion in India. Hosted by Parmesh Shahani, each episode brings you conversations with visionaries and changemakers who are reshaping corporate spaces, redefining accessibility, challenging cultural narratives, and driving inclusive business practices.

Their insightful discussions will help you discover how to find solut...