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Defining Social Entrepreneurship

Vishy KurugantiMay 04, 20115 mins

Pic: courtesy mccombs.utexas.edu The smart folks over at Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) have made a strong case for a rigorous definition of social entrepreneurship. They argue that social…

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

Vishy KurugantiMay 01, 20115 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…

Banking for India's Domestic Migrants

Vishy KurugantiApril 28, 20113 mins

India’s 100 million strong domestic migrants contribute a whopping 10% of its GDP. As I covered in The Twentyfirst Century Kabuliwalas of India, domestic migrants are one of the missing links in India…

A monster in the making: the Babajob story

Vishy KurugantiApril 27, 20116 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…

The Twentyfirst Century Kabuliwalas of India

Vishy KurugantiApril 19, 20115 mins

Pic: courtesy upperstall.com Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali poet, novelist, playwright, painter and musician) is renowned for so many works of art that it seems almost criminal to dwell on a personal…

No frills traveling MBA program from TREES

Vishy KurugantiApril 15, 20113 mins

The cost of a two-year MBA program at a top-tier MBA school in India (think IIMs and XLRI) will burn 14 lakhs in your wallet. For Tier 2 MBA schools, the cost plummets to a range between 3 and 5 lakhs…

Visit to the Zenrainman's House

Vishy KurugantiApril 08, 20114 mins

Pic courtesy flickr.com [Editor’s Note: The purpose of this blog post is to acknowledge that water is a burning issue of the present. It requires the involvement and collaboration of governments, NGOs…

Katuri's Question

Vishy KurugantiApril 07, 20112 mins

No! This is not the color scheme we picked. It’s almost a year since we purchased the Reva as our second car. The borderline-giddy post Hum do humare do…bina exhaust ke on my personal blog records…

Grassroutes: A New Model for Rural Tourism

Vishy KurugantiApril 06, 20116 mins

[Editor’s Note: Last week I had an engaging phone conversation with Inir Pinheiro, co-founder of Grassroutes, an innovative rural tourism social enterprise which aims to unveil the hidden India by…

The various connotations and implications of BOP (Bottom of Pyramid)

Vishy KurugantiMarch 31, 20113 mins

Pic: courtesy borderbuster.blogspot.com India has a formidable chunk of its population at the Bottom of Pyramid (BOP), the poorest socio-economic group. Ever since BoP was defined by Professors C.K…

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