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The Great Gatsby - a newer faster TechSangam

Vishy KurugantiAugust 16, 20202 mins

The TechSangam blog turned nine on March 11, 2020. The milestone passed with nary a fuss because, truth be told, the prolificacy of the early years had morphed into a slow death march towards dormancy…

India needs more non-profit unicorns

Vishy KurugantiAugust 08, 20202 mins

Nextbillion.net, one of my go-to resources in the early years of this blog, has an informative article highlighting the fact that India is woefully short in yet another area — the number of non-profit…

Schwab Foundation's Two Decades of Impact Report

Vishy KurugantiMay 09, 20202 mins

A few times a year, I Google a few variants of “social enterprise news” with the hope of uncovering new kids on the block or some new social impact report. Measuring social impact is hard. For…

Lest we forget

Vishy KurugantiMay 06, 20202 mins

Lest we forget the numerous mountains still to be climbed in India, this Firstpost photo essay reminds us. After floodwater receded from the villages of western Maharashtra in 2019, the villages were…

Raghu, the cycle repair guy

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 15, 20202 mins

You go down Tavarekere Main Road or as Bangalorean direction-givers are apt to say “straaaaaaaaiiiiiitu” until you almost reach, what looks like a dead-end but upon closer examination, is a fork in…

Bangalore's social enterprises – 2020 redux

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 04, 20204 mins

This 2012 piece where I catalogued Bangalore’s social enterprises (30 of them) continues to be a popular destination for Google searchers. This is a redux post – essentially a 2020 update just by…

We've got cash – you've got mail

Vishy KurugantiDecember 29, 20194 mins

That’s the tag line for GiveDirectly, a 10-year old US-based non-profit making waves in 9 African countries. “Cash” for unconditional cash transfers and “you’ve got mail” for the m-Pesa notification…

Farmer cooperative to Farmveda in 7 years

Vishy KurugantiDecember 06, 20191 mins

Is it a coincidence that I invoke Dr. Trilochan Sastry in yesterday’s post and today there’s a message from him in my Inbox? Either that or I have psychic powers. Dear Sir/ Ma’am, To give you a bit…

Unconditional transfers approaching primetime

Vishy KurugantiDecember 05, 20192 mins

Since I first read about unconditional transfers (in Banerjee and Duflo’s Poverty Economics book), I’ve been fascinated about this seemingly this-cant-possibly-work approach to foreign aid. Later I…

Insights from 3 Silicon Valley angels

Vishy KurugantiJune 16, 20172 mins

What is it about startup life that makes it seem way longer than it was? My recent mGaadi journey lasted 3 yrs 8 months but it felt like 5 years. My previous journey (Graspr) lasted an intense 1…

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