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Wheeling the UP rickshaw pullers away from exploitation

Vishy KurugantiOctober 05, 20113 mins

Naveen Krishna (Managing Director, SMV Wheels) [Editor’s Note: Last week I had a phone conversation with Naveen Krishna, Managing Director of SMV Wheels (a Varanasi-based social enterprise with an…

An agricultural extension innovation going viral: Digital Green

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 28, 20114 mins

Rikin Gandhi (Founder & CEO, Digital Green) [Editor’s Note: Early this week, I had an engrossing phone conversation with Rikin Gandhi (CEO of agricultural extension pioneer Digital Green). Born and…

FarmsNFarmers – a full-service approach to maximizing farmers profits

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 05, 20113 mins

Farms n Farmers co-founders: Shashank Kumar (left) and Manish Kumar (right) [Editor’s Note: A few weeks ago, I had an engaging conversation with Shashank Kumar, co-founder of Farms N Farmers, an end…

Greenway Smart Stove: A cleaner smarter stove for 150 million BOP households

Vishy KurugantiAugust 18, 20114 mins

[Editor’s Note: I briefly met Neha Juneja, co-founder of Mumbai-based Greenway Grameen Infra, on the sidelines of Sankalp Forum (covered here). I followed up with a phone conversation with her last…

BOPEEI: Generating off-grid electricity in cloudy and coastal regions

Vishy KurugantiAugust 11, 20113 mins

[Editor’s Note: An early blog subscriber and friend clued me onto an energy inclusion social enterprise started by one of her classmates from University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. The…

Travel Another India – One Village at a Time

Vishy KurugantiJuly 20, 20114 mins

[Editor’s Note: Last week, I had an engaging phone chat with Gouthami, co-Founder & CEO of Travel Another India (TAI), a rural responsible tourism social enterprise registered in Chennai. This post is…

Travel Another India (TAI) in Pictures

Vishy KurugantiJuly 19, 20111 mins

Our review post on Travel Another India (TIA) – One Village at a Time was published today. Here are the rest of the wonderful pictures. Rural Locales Amraee Rural resort in Pranpur (Madhya Pradesh…

Creating a killer user experience for the MFI field agents

Vishy KurugantiMay 25, 20115 mins

[Editor’s Note: Earlier this week, I spent a few hours chatting with Sameer Segal at his cozy rooftop office digs in HSR Layout. Sameer is the Founder & CEO of one-year old Artoo, a startup with a…

Khata Kholo Har Darwaza Kholo – Eko's Branchless Banking (Part 1)

Vishy KurugantiMay 01, 20114 mins

When you hear “no-frills banking” think of a place like this (Pic: courtesy cgap.org) [Editor’s Note: A few weeks ago I had an engaging phone conversation with Abhishek Sinha, co-founder and CEO of…

A monster in the making: the Babajob story

Vishy KurugantiApril 27, 20115 mins

[Editor’s Note: Last week, I drove down to Richmond Town, Bangalore to interview Sean Blagsvedt, Founder & CEO of Babajob. Babajob’s office is in the 3rd floor of an apartment-style commercial…

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