Sandhya Ramesh and Zoya on Culture and Change at the Godrej Industries Group

The ‘DEI’ in the Godrej Lab’s name expands to ‘D’ for diversity, the representation of various populations in a given group of people; ‘E’ for equity, which means fair treatment for all people in a group, by taking each individual’s unique situation into account; and ‘I’ for inclusion, which is abo…

Dr Rohini Anand on Building Global DEI from the Ground Up

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.   Tha…

Anant Ahuja on Transforming Worker Well-being

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 you…

Dr Ruha Shadab on Building Workplace Inclusivity for Muslim Women

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, progre…

Amrita Padda on Breaking Barriers in Corporate India

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 care…

Faraz Arif Ansari on Making Indian Cinema More Inclusive

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 cha…

Amrita Ganguly on Driving Change in the Automotive Industry

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 o…

Nidhi Goyal and Apoorv Kulkarni on Driving Disability Inclusion and Accessibility

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?  …

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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, challeng…