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Vibrant Gujarat 2013 Day #1 – Perspective in 12 Tweets

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 11, 20132 mins

Madhu Kishwar shared a dozen tweets which summed up her takeaways from the first day of Vibrant Gujarat 2013. My personal favorites are #5, #6, and #9. 1\6 Even at risk of being damned for life by my…

Intuit Fasal quietly disrupting the farm market intelligence space

Vishy KurugantiOctober 10, 20124 mins

A happy Fasal farmer (Pic courtesy intuit.com) What happens when you breed JustDial and ZipDial with a Nasdaq 100 software company in the Indian rural countryside? You get Intuit Fasal – a powerful…

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…

Stop MNREGA for ONE year and let's kickoff Second Green Revolution

Vishy KurugantiMarch 12, 20123 mins

Pic: courtesy oecotextiles.wordpress.com “Stop MNREGA for one year and let’s kickoff Second Green Revolution with the corresponding budget of Rs. 40,000 crores!” Let me quickly disenchant you that a…

Returning to the Migration Meme

Vishy KurugantiMarch 09, 20123 mins

Pic: courtesy IndiaToday.in In the past week, three conversations with three different migrants in Bangalore (all working as security guards) reminded me why I need to devote more time (and blog space…

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…

Elitist School Systems – teachers with high ambition and parents with low expectations (double-whammy)

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 21, 20114 mins

[Editor’s Note: This is the sixth in a series of excerpts from chapter 4 (education policy) of Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s Poor Economics.] Parents are not alone in focusing their expectations…

A Call to Social Arms – Part 1

Vishy KurugantiJuly 25, 20113 mins

Israel’s mandatory military service program has long been an ideal for some concerned Indian citizens (Israeli citizens need to put in a 2-3 year military stint after turning 18). They argue that a…

Corruption Cases in the Indian States – a Visual Story

Vishy KurugantiJuly 08, 20111 mins

Our good friends at PRS Legislative Services took 10-years of corruption case data (2000-2009) from National Crime Records Bureau and created a very useful visualization using Tableau. I’ll start off…

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