• 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…

It’s my belief that most .gov innovations go unnoticed and the role of the government as an innovator is overlooked by many in the Social Entrepreneurship space. Of course, here at ThinkChange India, we capture pattern-breaking social change ideas wherever…

As an update to a previous post, “Seeds of Discontent,” InfoChange India reports that despite the recent government loan waiver package for poor farmers with less than 2 hectares of land, farmer suicides continue:

 Even as the UPA government works out the nitty-gritty…

Headlines of interest:

• Muslims demand more resource allocation

A budgetary allocation for the welfare of minorities in the union budget for the financial year 2008-09 is far short of expectations, say Muslim organisations, who recently held a demonstration in the Indian capital…