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Hippo Alert!

Umesh Malhotra, 43, always wanted to be his own boss and start something on his own steam. So, he quit his high-paying career at Infosys …

Scaling New Peaks

Brought up in the hustle and bustle of city life, Rashmi Bharti is a mathematics graduate who spent her college years in Delhi University’s North …

A New Ball Game

Picture a football training session: you have to take the ball through cones and on to the other side. The players are children but they …

Touch of Success

Bettiah, Bihar, 1968

A man observes a small boy being chased by an angry bull. He joins the crowed which is running to save the boy’s …

Rural route

As the flight touched down at the Goa airport, holidaymakers rushed out to fill in the hotels and guest houses all over the state. …

Steering Social Entrepreneurship

Global organization Ashoka defines social entrepreneurs as ‘individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems.’ The organization was founded by Bill Drayton in …

Queen Bee

Vijaya Pastala always knew she wanted to work in the ‘livelihoods’ space. She just didn’t know how till she read a National Commission of Farmers …

Waste Not!

Imagine running an enterprise where earthworms are your primary workers! And you have to protect them from birds and rats. Going a step further, you …

Serial Effect

Shahnaz Makbulbhai Vora runs a cutlery and provision store in Memdavad, a small village in Patan district of Gujarat. In 2002, Vora enrolled for a …

A Macro Look at Micro

After working for over 20 years in financial services, Rangan Varadan found himself veering away from the corporate world towards social development. When Varadan, Co-founder, …