Editor’s note: The ThinkChange India staff is committed to providing our readers with interviews of people we believe are at the brink of something special but have for the most part been overlooked by the mainstream media. Readers will be…
Indicorps, known for its one-year fellowship program, is now launching a new Young Professional Initiative program that allows young Indian professionals to apply their time and skills to a short-term project. The five-month program includes a one-week orientation, a mid-term workshop,…
Google India didn’t just settle with their Internet bus; Google India Labs has now released the Google Noticeboard. Through a public digital noticeboard, the noticeboard may just bring social interaction up to a whole other level:
Communities with access to shared computers can…
This week has had no shortage of announcements of accepting nominations for some competitions and the unveiling of winners from others. Today, IndiaPRwire reports that the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, Schwab Foundation, and UNDP has picked finalists for the 2008 Social…
Editor’s Note: Aparna Dalal works with the Financial Access Initiative, a research consortium between New York University, Harvard, Yale, and Innovations for Poverty Action. FAI is focused on finding answers to how financial services can better meet the needs of poor…
The computer manufacturers Dell is now calling upon motivated individuals to “develop a generation of young people across the globe prepared to connect.” In order to accomplish this goal of producing a new wave of customers for its products, Dell…
One poem that always inspires me is “If” by Rudyard Kipling. Its starting lines came to my mind when I learned about Brij Kothari and his brainchild PlanetRead:
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it…
One finds heroes in the most unlikely of places and amongst the most unlikely of persons.
The unlikely place – “a little-noticed corner of India, in the Bulandshahr district of western Uttar Pradesh”
The unlikely person – “Virendra (Sam) Singh”, belonging to…
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