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Global Journal's Top 100 Best NGOs – an India Commentary

Vishy KurugantiMarch 06, 20123 mins

Pic: courtesy globaljournal.net The Global Journal released its inaugural Top 100 Best NGOs list. I read about it in this DNA article which focused more on the fact that (gasp!) Bangladesh had beaten…

Hippocratic Oath for Social Entrepreneurs

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 24, 20122 mins

Hippocrates (460-370 BC) Pic: courtesy osmanian.com On the final day of the Acara Summer Institute 2011, after the teams had made their final presentations, this appeal from Dr. Trilochan Sastry…

Calling bullshit on Forbes' List of Top 30 Social Entrepreneurs

Vishy KurugantiDecember 05, 20113 mins

Pic: courtesy top-cartoons.de Normally I don’t pay much attention to Top [X] rankings. Maybe today was a slow news day. Maybe I just returned from Villgro’s Unconvention and am still chewing the cud…

Why I Like These Social Enterprises – Part 1

Vishy KurugantiJuly 18, 20113 mins

Pic: courtesy inthroughit.wordpress.com It recently struck me that I should start adding a “What I like about <enterprise x>” section to each post. The section would include social metrics the…

The Acara Institute Challenge: inspiring social entrepreneurship at the university level

Vishy KurugantiJune 24, 20112 mins

Pic courtesy acarainstitute.org [Editor’s Note: In the past fortnight, I had a Skype call with Fred Rose, Co-Founder & CEO of Acara Institute, and a meeting with Arun Patre, their India Manager. The…

India's Largest Rural BPO's ambitious plan to create 'hubs' in every rural district

Vishy KurugantiJune 23, 20114 mins

[Editor’s Note: Yesterday I drove up to Whitefield to meet Murali Vullaganti, co-founder and CEO of India’s largest rural BPO, Rural Shores. What I heard must have excited me because I’m publishing…

India's Ashoka Fellows

Vishy KurugantiJune 10, 20113 mins

Pic: courtesy india.ashoka.org [Editor’s Note: Last month, I sat down with Solomon Prakash for the first of what promises to be many more interesting conversations. Solomon is a serial social…

Top 15 Social Enterprise Aphorisms

Vishy KurugantiMay 16, 20111 mins

My first reaction on seeing this (Top 100 Social Enterprise Truths) post from Pop-Up Social Enterprise Think Tank’s: What! Are there so many? My second reaction, halfway through my perusal: No way are…

Evolution of the Human Race

Vishy KurugantiMarch 11, 20112 mins

If you were to drop into a bookstore or a library looking for an Arthur C. Clarke book, you’d quickly be directed to the Science Fiction area. There is however one of his works that’s worthy of also…

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Global Journal's Top 100 Best NGOs &#8211; an India Commentary