CEO and Senior Fellow, Reuben Abraham writes with Sandeep Parekh on CSR rules and missed opportunities, in this Livemint article.

"The overly prescriptive set of what is and what is not CSR is grounded in mistrust (based on a variety of delegated explanatory circulars) rather than in trust (as prescribed in the section). This mistrust is best seen in the non-inclusion of research, perhaps because of a fear that commercial research and development activities will be passed off under CSR."

Read the full piece here.