Kids are dying, why can’t we move faster: Gates – Yes we Can, sir! Social Entrepreneurship – Interview with RangDe Founder – Folks at Pluggd.in interview the founder of India’s first p2p micro-lending site India Financial Inclusion Fund To Invest in Allahabad-based MFI – India Financial Inclusion Fund (IFIF) is advised by Caspian Advisers, the [...]

We covered the arrival of TED in India earlier, and now they are looking for TEDIndia Fellows.  A message from TEDIndia organizers: Organizers of the TED Conference announced they would begin the search for 100 TEDIndia Fellows to participate in the TEDIndia Conference in Mysore, India, following upon the successful TED Fellows program launch at [...]

The inspirational, energy-filled, and fun TED conference is heading to India this year.  From November 4-7, 2009, TEDIndia will take place in Mysore and bring together speakers and delegates that are reinventing India.  The huge success of TED makes its arrival in India even more exciting.  At TC-I, we covered a few TED talks here, [...]

Saturday afternoon news: Social welfare: The Government of Himachal Pradesh is planning to issue separate ration cards to single widows in the state to enable them draw benefits under various state social welfare programmes. (Source: iGovernment) Health research: Using supercomputing simulations and lab experiments, an IBM research team plans to accelerate the design of drugs [...]

Dr. Muhammad Yunus has talked extensively about reconceptualizing “capitalism” in his new book, “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and The Future of Capitalism,” suggesting that “capitalism” posits human beings as one dimensional profit maximizers, devoid of complexity and multi-dimensionality. He proposes the reconceptualization of capitalism in the context of social business, where the [...]