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15 years and a new menu every month
BY RITA & UMESH ANAND
When we are asked to talk about our magazine, which is more often these days than in the early years, ...
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Voluntarism finds new ways to take India forward
I would like to imagine the voluntary sector in India as an ocean of creativity and endeavour across the vast ...
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Innovation has been linking profit with social purpose
A new vocabulary is doing the rounds. Bill Gates talks about ‘creative capitalism’. Michael Porter talks about ‘creating shared value’. ...
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CSOs shouldn’t try to be like companies in scaling up
Shortly after he launched Civil Society, Umesh Anand asked me to write a book to introduce ‘civil society’ to business ...
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Social activism or politics by other means?
After India won independence from British colonial rule, the principal architect of that great civil society movement, Mahatma Gandhi, wanted ...
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New basics: Livelihoods micro-equity, digi-touch
Microfinance began in India in 1974 with the establishment of the SEWA Bank in Ahmedabad by Ela Bhatt, as SEWA ...
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In schools, a silver lining to dark clouds
After 26 years of corporate life, in 2000, when I decided to move to the education sector, I was viewing ...
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When the Govt becomes a caring super parent
Mounika has boarded a train, the Dakshin Express, for the first time in her life. The special general compartment that ...
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Organic’s time is now, it needs Govt and market
India has the largest pool of organic producers in the world, according to the World of Organic Agriculture Report 2018. ...
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Building the Reva meant starting from scratch
The idea of electric vehicles to clean up the air in our cities has always been the right one. Back ...
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Long road to Smartpur could be made much shorter ?
People often ask us why we at the Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) are trying to impart digital literacy or create ...
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Connecting civic dots in Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai
India is a rapidly urbanising country. Its 373 million urban population in 2010 is expected to touch 814 million by ...
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Cities have enough water, they just don’t see it
The great Mughal ruler, Akbar, built the city of Fatehpur Sikri in the 16th century to be his new capital. ...
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Cruel road ahead for animals on the edge
Slumped on the road, the leopard attempted to rise, but fell. She hauled herself up only to crumple again. Somehow, ...
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Lyrics, scales and a modern sense of Indian-ness
How did your band come up with the name Indian Ocean? This is a question we have been asked countless ...
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Fertility decisions should be rightly left to women
In 2022, headlines across the world will announce that India has overtaken China to become the most populous country on ...
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Sanitation economy is on the rise with jobs, tech
Has the world ceded to sanitation being costly and difficult, a problem we must solve in familiar ways by pouring ...
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