Can you help fight climate change by contributing just 30 seconds of your day? Can artificial intelligence prepare meals reminiscent of your mother’s cooking? How are thousands of senior citizens harnessing the power of social media to fight misinformation?

‘Igniting Ideas for Impact’, an audiobook by Accenture India and The Better India, embarks into a journey of exploring these and more transformatory ideas over a course of six chapters.

Traversing India’s landscape, we delve deep into some of the nation’s pioneering startups and the revolutionaries behind them. The people you will hear from in this book include Geetha Manjunath talking about her transformative battle for early breast cancer detection; Saket Modi on his global mission for cyber security; Aishwarya Karnataki on her endeavour to include thousands living with an invisible disability; and Manish Amin on his goal of printing human organs to save millions of lives – to name a few.

We speak to Indians wheeling in sea change across sustainability, women in leadership, deep tech, innovation, artificial intelligence, and the future of the workforce.

Author & Edited By: The Better India | Accenture India

When Women Lead to Build Foundations, Not to Break Ceilings: This chapter on women in leadership delves into the creative solutions brought forth by female leaders. It focuses on women who take charge in boardrooms and recounts their distinctive paths of reshaping their work environments. The theme also addresses the obstacles they encounter, the valuable lessons they gather, and other aspects of their journeys.

Author: Swapna Majumdar
Edited by: Divya Sethu & Tanaya Singh

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The Sustainable Switch: How to Grow Without Harming the Environment? This chapter explores the meaning of sustainability in depth from the lenses of entrepreneurs engaged in developing solutions for organic waste management, air pollution and generating finance for climate change solutions. These individuals have developed unique solutions that not only abide by their concepts of sustainability, but also give us a shot at a cleaner and healthier future. Here are their stories as Indians building sustainable solutions, how they arrived at them and their thoughts on the larger sustainability business ecosystem in the country.

Author: Rinchen Norbu Wangchuk
Edited by: Divya Sethu & Tanaya Singh