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Improving air quality by fixing roads

Vishy KurugantiApril 03, 20252 mins

Imagine this. Your local municipal body fixes all the potholes and broken road stretches in your city’s ward. Besides improving mobility (till the next monsoon), it also improves air quality in your…

Deep dive into IIC (Impact Investors Council)

Vishy KurugantiApril 01, 20255 mins

Executive Summary The Impact Investors Council (IIC) in India has over 65 members, including impact investment firms, venture capital funds, family offices, foundations, banks, and development…

India needs more non-profit unicorns

Vishy KurugantiAugust 08, 20202 mins

Nextbillion.net, one of my go-to resources in the early years of this blog, has an informative article highlighting the fact that India is woefully short in yet another area — the number of non-profit…

World Bank India Development Marketplace: Finalist Review Part 2

Vishy KurugantiMay 30, 20132 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…

World Bank India Development Marketplace: Finalist Review Part 1

Vishy KurugantiMay 29, 20133 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…

Poor leap-frogging the rich?

Vishy KurugantiApril 04, 20132 mins

The 1600 INR Pollinate lamp (Pic courtesy theatlanticcities.com) Just read an intriguing Mother Jones article on the adoption of solar power in India’s slums. The two solar startups profiled in the…

Building India through Enterprise – Meera Sanyal's Jagriti Yatra Story

Vishy KurugantiMarch 24, 20134 mins

Pic courtesy meerasanyal.wordpress.com A year ago I had a brief encounter with a young SELCO employee (Nikhil Nair – NN) following a scintillating chat with Harish Hande. Outside in the parking lot…

The Last 500 Feet

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 12, 20138 mins

[Editor’s Note: Paul Polak, social entrepreneur and author of Out of Poverty, wrote this highly informative narrative of the problems (and some proposed solutions) in the rural transportation area…

Indian Social Enterprises Getting a Silicon Valley Makeover

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 10, 20132 mins

TechCrunch reports that Bangalore/Seattle-based Unitus Seed Fund got a fresh infusion of $8 million from a bevy of A-list investors – from Silicon Valley and Bangalore. I believe the entry of the…

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…

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