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Vibrant Gujarat 2013 Day #1 – Perspective in 12 Tweets

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 11, 20132 mins

Madhu Kishwar shared a dozen tweets which summed up her takeaways from the first day of Vibrant Gujarat 2013. My personal favorites are #5, #6, and #9. 1\6 Even at risk of being damned for life by my…

Elitist School Systems – teachers with high ambition and parents with low expectations (double-whammy)

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 21, 20114 mins

[Editor’s Note: This is the sixth in a series of excerpts from chapter 4 (education policy) of Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s Poor Economics.] Parents are not alone in focusing their expectations…

Rurbanization in Gujarat – early signs of success

Vishy KurugantiMay 14, 20112 mins

Preity Zinta a Vibrant Gujarat Summit (Pic courtesy gemslu.blogspot.com) In the run-up to the highly successful Vibrant Gujarat Summit in Jan 2011, Gujarat’s Chief Minister (Narendra Modi…

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