• Amartya revives forgotten argument - Amartya Sen has urged public debate to focus more on the central issues of social justice in India in an interview to The Telegraph to coincide with a Confederation of Indian Industry summit in London…

• De-traumatise education in India, says Sibal – Cuttting-edge education policy on the works in India, thanks to the new HRD minister
• Microfinance agenda for the new government - Via @balanchander (CEO of United Prosperity) – Great policy agenda for streaming microfinance regulation in India
• Nandan…

Within an extensive review of Tweeps (people who tweet), SocialEdge has compiled a list of the 20 essential people or entities to follow in the Social Entrepreneurship space, and we are happy to announce that ThinkChange India is one of them.

It…

The idea popped when I was reading this NY Times article on a federally funded program in the US where wireless carriers receive a subsidy to provide people under welfare with a mobile phone and 68 minutes of talk time each month!…

Editor’s Note: Guest blogger Adrienne Villani is an Associate at Intellecap, where she is involved in the conceptualization and creation of content for Beyond Profit, Intellecap’s publication on social enterprise and social entrepreneurship, both in print and online. Trained as a demographer,…

• A Tamil Nadu MFI Gets $4.25M From MicroVest, UEF, Vinod Khosla - Grama Vidiyal is the largest MFI in the state of Tamil Nadu
• Kerala, Karnataka based MFIs raise funds - Looks like its getting pretty hot – more MFIs investments spotted!
• Social Entrepreneurship – Change.org:…

We at TC-I write about many topics from clean energy to women’s reproductive health. The space of social entrepreneurship and innovation is one that touches every aspect of one’s life. Notwithstanding we are a victim of our own sources and…

• Premji Foundation gets nod for university – Estimated investment would be about Rs.2 billion (Rs.200 crore), including the endowment fund of Rs.250 million
• Banking Lessons from the Campaign Trail – WSJ piece by the Meera Sanyal, Head of ABN Amro India, who also…

Tom Reilly, TED’s Community Director informs us that the deadline for TED India Fellowships have been extended till  Sunday June 21st at 11:59PM PDT

Our original TEDIndia Fellowships deadline was this past Monday, but we have extended the deadline to make…