Editor’s Note: Guest blogger Lindsay Clinton is an Associate Vice President at Intellecap, where she is the Managing Editor of Beyond Profit and Microfinance Insights. Prior to joining Intellecap, she worked as the Marketing and Communications Director at The White House Project, a women’s leadership organization based in New York City. Lindsay writes a semi-regular [...]

We, the ThinkChange India editors, extend our deepest condolences to those affected by the recent atrocities committed in Bombay, India. The most important questions – what actually happened, who was responsible / complicit, why the violence spiraled out of control, and what could have possibly pushed a group of youth to partake in such heinous [...]

In a prior post, Vinay wrote about a groundbreaking event – the establishment of the first ever bank run for and by sex workers in Kamathipura, Bombay. As a follow up to that post, OneWorld South Asia reports today that the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India has recently introduced a life insurance scheme for [...]

Those of us who have lived in an urban area in India know how traumatizing (and potentially life-threatening) the pedestrian’s experience can be. Horns blaring, buses hurtling towards intersections at breakneck speed, motorcycles weaving in and out of traffic, ineffectual traffic lights (at times flashing both red and green), debris littering pedestrian pathways (if they [...]

Recently, we interviewed Nitin Gupta, co-founder of NGO Post, about the vision and mission of their site, including plans for expansion in the future.  Please find a summary of the interview below:  About NGO Post: Nitin Gupta and Parul Gupta’s passion lies in building connections between NGOs around the world.  Their method, however, is an [...]

There is currently an ideological debate brewing in Bombay regarding the preservation of ancient structures versus urban modernization.  The building in question is the 139-year Crawford Market in Bombay, which is facing the threat of demolition by RNA Corp., a leading Bombay construction firm that hopes to replace the building with a high-rise. The Supreme [...]

Bombay High Court upheld government acquisition of land via the Indian Forests Act of 1927 Soot credited with 4 lakh deaths according to recent study Regulatory fixes fees for self-financed medical colleges Kendriya Vidyalayas on university campuses may begin to appear (wiki article for KVs) Class XI girl has surprise birth after taking emergency contraception [...]

Rural Supply Chain MokshaYug Access Gets $2 Million Funding from Unitus A rural supply chain firm MokshaYug Access (MYA) has received funding of Rs 8.35 crore ($2 million) from Unitus Equity Fund L P (UEF), an Unitus supported organisation to fund microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Asia and Latin America. The amount will go towards building [...]

Point of View, a sex workers’ rights media advocacy organization, in collaboration with SANGRAM, a community based organization for and by women in prostitution, have both partnered up with VAMP, a collective of women in prostitution from Sangli, Maharashtra for a play entitled “My Mother, The Gharwali, Her Maalak, His Wife.”  This is not a work [...]

In an interview promoting his new book, India Arriving, Rafiq Dossani (former editor of Business India weekly) said that he sees the next Google coming from not Bangalore or even the developed world, but rather a small town in India. Now, if you ask whether someone else might do that in India, and who that [...]