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Why Bill Gates's Toilet of the Future might be too First Worldy

Vishy KurugantiMarch 09, 20142 mins

Almost two years ago, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation declared Caltech as the winner of Reinvent the Toilet Challenge. Caltech’s Toilet of the Future (pic webpronews.com) A solar-powered toilet that…

Less Jugaad, More Real Innovation

Vishy KurugantiJune 10, 20134 mins

[Editor’s Note: The World Bank’s Development Marketplace (DM) is a competitive grants program that surfaces and funds innovative projects with high potential for development impact that are scalable…

House of Dignity: Mighty Madiath's Life Mission

Vishy KurugantiMarch 25, 20132 mins

Pic courtesy meerasanyal.wordpress.com Gram Vikas (GV) is my favorite Orissa organization. Heck, if I ever curated a Top 5 pan-India list, it would probably be in it. When I asked Bangalore’s…

Most Indian men are Cambridge Men

Vishy KurugantiDecember 06, 20122 mins

Pic courtesy merrittolson.wordpress.com At some point in your school (or college) years, you might have heard of this joke. Following the annual debate competition between Oxford University and…

Once upon a time in Seattle

Vishy KurugantiNovember 24, 20125 mins

B was born into an upper middle class family in Seattle. Born in the mid 1950s, B had two sisters and showed early signs of competitiveness when he organized family athletic games at their summer…

Decades after White Revolution Gujarat gearing up for Blue Revolution

Vishy KurugantiJuly 03, 20124 mins

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…

Ragpicker Chronicles: how a cooperative transformed their lives

Vishy KurugantiApril 05, 20125 mins

[Editor’s Note: This is Part 2 of a 3-part series on a unique urban cooperative organization – an evolution from a ‘Convention of 800 Ragpickers’ to a registered trade union and finally to its current…

Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP)

Vishy KurugantiApril 05, 20122 mins

[Editor’s Note: This is the first of a 3-part series on a unique urban cooperative organization – an evolution from a ‘Convention of 800 Ragpickers’ to a registered trade union and finally to its…

WaterAid's Review of Total Sanitation Campaign

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 27, 20123 mins

[Possibly TechSangam’s 1st Oops moment: A friend/reader just alerted me to the fact that the WaterAid report, on which this post is based of, is from 2008 and not 2012 as I had assumed. Will hunt for…

My thoughts on Bangalore's First Water Hackathon

Vishy KurugantiNovember 08, 20114 mins

Hackathon_9 It’s not often that one is satisfied about an event even before it has occurred. As I drove to IIIT-B (host to Bangalore’s first water hackathon) on a Sunday afternoon, I felt precisely…

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