Sustainability Reporting is for transparency, and is performance at it’s minimum, but a necessary evil as it lifts the entire process architecture to include environmental and social data analysis in decision making. Ratings are a critical proxy for many aspects which are really the hidden transcript of every day capitalism, which it tries very hard to shrug under the proverbial carpet.

The simplistic readings of sustainability data is detrimental to corporate performance, as risk is reality in each decision. ESG data reveals as much as it tries to hide, yet the trained eye can read in between the lines, the magic of the architecture is that the data is meant to be read across data sets and against the grain, not to merely consume it on its face value, as the data might not be even assured, even in its limited variation.

The strength of ESG is the plurality in the multiple registers of data it entails, and the attempt to codify it will restrict its ability as a weak signals dashboard for the future.

It’s been interesting to find Bengalis from the Bengali speaking states in India, namely West Bengal and Tripura working in the Indian restaurant sector, aka Mamak’s in Malaysia. Usually Bangladeshi’s were known to be a diaspora all over, but their Indian Bengali counterparts are following suit for very little money.

Not surprisingly Bengali Muslims from Nadia and Mushirdabad dominate, although Hindus are being found too. Bengali migration internally to Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore is well known.

A paper is lurking somewhere for an enterprising scholar from the academic industrial complex of CU JU and PU.