Many SMEs feel the green tape emerging as a cost in everyday operations as the climate era makes it an imperative to count carbon alongside commercial numbers. It is a supply chain issue, however many of the benefits of complying with sustainability edicts might not be apparent. For a larger company physical climate risk is measured and mapped into a double materiality assessment, but for a small firm it might seem immediate, as cash flow issues in an election year with a war risk climate are saturating leadership attention spans.

Carbon is a proxy for environmental indicators, and seen as a step towards mitigating climate change risks. But adaptation to physical risk profiles needs more input measures such as a flood and heat risk assessment might yeild more actionable insights than a carbon emissions assessment, as a mere reporting data point.

There are two kinds of ESG; regulatory and material, which one are we looking at?

A Professor Farish Noor Masterclass at Gerakbudaya PJ. He spoke from Edward Said beyond Orientalism to exoticising to Indomie Student Manufacturing to Deconstruction for two hours to a full house on a Sunday afternoon.

Also meet Dr Dipika and Pak Isa and learnt from them.

The independent bookstore culture in KL is commendable.

H-Pop during Thaipusam time with Shivaji Maharaj Ki Jai.

The Winds from Ayodhya are blowing across the Long Duree Hindu Diaspora.

Mandi from Halab KL.

Kuala Lumpur has the most authentic Arabic cuisine thanks to a large student and refugee diaspora from Yemen, Syria, Somalia and Sudan.

As a second/third generation migrant and migration researcher, it is rather satisfying to read narratives of human mobility which are more than numbers.

The cheese naan and cholay took me to my childhood in the Gulf where Pakistani fare at Al Haikal and Chacha’s parathas in Masqat defined a certain edible aesthetic.

Diaspora eateries shape a south Asian aesthetic across the Indian Ocean.