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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…

Supply-Demand Wars in Education Policy – Part 1

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 02, 20113 mins

[Editor’s Note: The best non-fiction book I ever borrowed used to be Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel. That distinction is in real danger of being usurped by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s…

No-frills Savings: MFIs have a case to make

Vishy KurugantiAugust 26, 20114 mins

[Editor’s Note: It’s a pleasure to bring you TechSangam’s second guest writer – Srijan Kaushik. After graduating from DAIICT (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology) in…

Establishing commodity cooperatives – role of promoting organizations

Vishy KurugantiAugust 25, 20113 mins

[Editor’s Note: This is the final part of a 7-part series on commodity cooperatives in drought prone regions, originally authored as a pre-published paper by Dr. Trilochan Sastry (Academic Dean, IIM…

Establishing commodity cooperatives – promoter philosophy, leadership and cooperative rules

Vishy KurugantiAugust 19, 20114 mins

[Editor’s Note: This is part 6 of a 7-part series on commodity cooperatives in drought prone regions, originally authored as a pre-published paper by Dr. Trilochan Sastry (Academic Dean, IIM-Bangalore…

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…

The mud chulhas of India

Vishy KurugantiAugust 17, 20111 mins

I’m still halfway through my post on Greenway Grameen Infrastructure (published here). The Greenway Grameen Infra crew has done a fair amount of market research and have amassed a veritable photo…

Establishing commodity cooperatives – crucial role of member stakes

Vishy KurugantiAugust 12, 20113 mins

[Editor’s Note: This is part 5 of a 7-part series on commodity cooperatives in drought prone regions, originally authored as a pre-published paper by Dr. Trilochan Sastry (Academic Dean, IIM-Bangalore…

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…

Working for informed and participatory democracy – the PRS story

Vishy KurugantiAugust 09, 20116 mins

[Editor’s Note: It’s a pleasure to bring TechSangam’s first guest post, on PRS Legislative Research (PRS), from Yogesh Upadhyaya. Yogesh is co-founder of banking and financial services software…

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