We post a lot of contest opportunities on TC-I, but the really interesting part is when the winners are announced and new ideas are revealed. Last November, ASSET (Achieving Sustainable Social Equality through Technology) India Foundation set up a Challenge by…

Top posts of the week

1. Prerna’s op-ed on self-interest and social good
2. A guest post on CSR by Badhri
3. Not published last week, but Vinay’s post on the sex worker bank continues to generate interest

Reaching into the archives

Shital’s post on an organization known as Barefoot College back…

We reported here on TC-I couple of months back about India’s first sex-workers bank being set up in Mumbai. A group of sex workers in Mysore have gone a step-further and emerged as successful entrepreneurs. Organized under an organization called Ashodaya…

This week’s review – top posts:

1. Vinay’s feature on the bank for sex workers in Mumbai
2. Santhosh’s post on The Hindu’s interview with Pradeep Nevatia
3. A documentary fable about global warming, highlighted by Shital last week

Reaching into the archives:

Just last week, Prerna discussed The Talent Vacuum in…

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…

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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…

Victimized. Marginalized. Stigmatized. Wayward. Downtrodden. Immoral.

Vandana is a poor woman in prostitution. But that is not all that she is defined by, although academic discourse may be rife with theories about how she should conceive of her own identity. Vandana…

Not exactly one of the most glamorous demographics to cater to, sex workers symbolize so much of what can be described as structural or systemic poverty. The squalor of the red-light districts in the urban areas of India do not…