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MacKenzie's blistering pace of giving

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 01, 20215 mins

Giving Pledge to $5.9 billion in 19 months On Jan 9, 2019 Jeff Bezos tweeted his divorce announcement, ending his 25-year old marriage with MacKenzie Scott. The divorce would eventually be finalized…

The other Nilekani

Vishy KurugantiNovember 29, 20207 mins

Philanthropy’s changing gender? Philanthropy has been overwhelmingly male-driven because (obviously) it’s men who’ve accumulated enormous surplus of wealth across eras and industries. In the last 2…

Why OLPC failed

Vishy KurugantiOctober 09, 20207 mins

If you’ve heard of Nicholas Negroponte and MIT Media Lab, chances are you’ve also heard of the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child). If Negroponte doesn’t ring a bell, here’s the briefest of introductions: an…

Boiling the poor frogs

Vishy KurugantiOctober 02, 20204 mins

In the recently concluded first American Presidential debate, the stark economic policy difference between the two candidates was best illustated by their responses to “how exactly is the American…

A phone is indeed not enough

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 26, 20203 mins

If you are reading this article, you are probably witnessing (directly or indirectly) the Zoom’ification of the Indian classroom. While the Ubers and the Olas have come to a screetching halt, Byju’s…

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, 20203 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, 20203 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, 20204 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…

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