Entries Published On July, 2012
RTE a smoke screen for India’s real education problems
Earlier today, I caught a tweet with the intriguing title RTE: The Unasked Question. Glad I clicked on it because the linked article (by Jaideep Prabhu) made for a very interesting read. Prabhu is a doctoral student (in history) at Vanderbilt University and also the International Affairs & Security Editor at the Centre Right blog. …
Greatest Social Entrepreneurs of All Time?
Another day. Another list. Not.Going.To.Get.Worked.Up.This.Time. (Hint: my reaction to the Forbes list of 30 social entrepreneurs) But seriously there’s nothing to get worked up about a “greatest of all time” list . I mean, after all, social entrepreneurship has been around for centuries. Social enterprises have dramatically changed people’s lives in the past century. Worldwide poverty …
Multi-Pronged Supply Chain Strategy for Indian Horticulture
[Editor’s Note: This is Part 2 of a two-part article – originally published on Scribd.com by Sivakumar Surampudi (aka “Shiv”), a 22 year ITC veteran and architect of e-Choupal. Part 1 link here and original Scribd link here. If you are reading this via RSS or email and the table below is not very clear, you may click …
Supply Chains for Horticultural Products
[Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on Scribd.com by Sivakumar Surampudi (aka “Shiv”), a 22 year ITC veteran, architect of e-Choupal, and head of their Agro Business Division (ABD). It’s being republished on TechSangam as a two-part series with Shiv’s permission. Original Scribd link here. When we bemoan the paucity of efficient supply chains as …
The Ugly Indian Chronicles Volume 11 – of poets, philosophers, psychologists & designers
What will it take to clean up Bangalore? The answer is certainly not just corporators and bureaucrats. My favorite Bangalore citizens, The Ugly Indians (aka TUI), will tell you that the battle has to be won “in the mind.” In the mind of its citizens of course. On Jan 26, 2012, they released this 6-minute “Ugly …
Decades after White Revolution Gujarat gearing up for Blue Revolution
All revolutions don’t have to be red in color. Milk is white and water is blue. – Old jungle saying [Editor’s Note: Meera Sanyal, CEO of RBS India who contested parliament elections in 2009 as an independent candidate in South Mumbai, went on a 15-day field trip to Gujarat in Mar 2012. She wrote a wonderful …
Acara Summer Institute 2012 – Nine Impressive Teams
[Editor’s Note: Last Friday I attended the final presentations of nine teams that made it to Acara Summer Institute 2012. I was impressed by the quality of the ideas and the pitches. What was most striking was that nearly all teams came across as *really wanting* to execute on their plans — in other words, …
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