• Investing in Indian Microfinance – Swimming Fully Clothed! | VCCircle – Great guest post at VC Circle by folks from Unitus Capital making an argument for investing in the Indian Microfinance sector

Pluggd.in’s continuing coverage of Social Entrepreneurship, the topical theme for the fortnight

• Social Entrepreneurship –…

• 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…

• Hillary calls for inclusive education - Teach India and Teach for India, two new initiatives were both covered here on TCI
• NComputing Deployment Wins Prestigious Award for Social Impact – PCQuest honors Indian state of Andhra Pradesh for using NComputing to empower 1.8 million students…

• Microfinance’s  small-town success attracts venture investors - Livemint story on the increasing Venture-Capital activity in the microfinance sector in India
• Poverty of will - R.Ramkumar from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) argues that new UPA government’s first Budget is marked by the absence…

• 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…

• 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:…

• 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…

• Drawing a Line Under Poverty in *India* - WSJ Delhi Chief offers his criticism of NREGA, using the findings from a recent World Bank Study
• Food & Agri Business To Require $25-30 Bn Investment in Next 3 Years - Investment in rural business and microfinance…

Your daily dose of the headlines

• How Gandhi would write a blog comment. [If you aspire to be a good commenter - read this post!]
• Sanjeev Sanyal: Small-town India holds the key [Lets not shun urbanization - but focus more on the small towns]
• ITC’s…