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India needs more non-profit unicorns

Vishy KurugantiAugust 08, 20203 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, 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…

World Bank India Development Marketplace: Finalist Review Part 1

Vishy KurugantiMay 29, 20133 mins

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, 20135 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…

Annual State of Education Report (ASER) 2012

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 17, 20132 mins

Pratham’s Annual State of Education Report (aka ASER) for 2012 is out. You’ll find it here. Odds are you have an allergy towards massive PDF documents or you are the quintessential procrastinator. So…

The Last 500 Feet

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 12, 20139 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…

In praise of slums. Or why millions of Indians choose to live in urban squalor

Vishy KurugantiAugust 23, 20123 mins

Took me longer to pick a ‘suitable’ slum picture than to write the post. (Pic: courtesy inhabitat.com) If you saw a provocative title like this on Twitter, you would click on it, right? I’m glad I did…

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