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Failures : What You Learn When Things Don’t Go Your Way On Field
Third part of a 3-part series on learning from failures
Failures : Integrity vs Accommodation
First of the 3 part series by our alumni on failures.
Friendly Spiders Of Agragamee
Imagine you have just woken up. You get up and open the door to step out, and...
What Being Restricted Taught Me About Empowerment
As I work with Shram Sarathi in Gogunda block of Udaipur, Rajasthan, if I have...
Love Story: Return – Part 2/2
Read Part 1 here “ㅤ Zuleikha, I am here. Zulu, l have come. Zulu, please take...
Love Story: Escape – Part 1/2
“ It was in the summers, about 30 years from today. I was pretty like those...
My Year In Poetry
The faces that came along this year I can’t believe it will soon be a year for...
What Drives Us To Action?
I implemented a newly designed financial literacy game with the community. The details of which will be shared in a later blog. This game is followed by a debriefing session on how you need to protect, grow and diversify wealth. I take a deep breath and launch:...
Sight-Seat
I live in Bhuj now. Not exactly, but I live in Mankua, a village on the outskirts of the city. I have started working with an alternate-learning school called Sinchan and have been provided an accommodation in the above mentioned village. The school name is not based...
Turning The Table
"दबाव बहुत है। हम तो कोशिश कर रहे हैं।", Nagma said. Nagma is a middle-aged health worker in the primary health centre (PHC) of Nichli Badi. She has been overseeing the PHC functions in absence of a doctor for the past one and a half month. A soft-spoken woman, she...
Letters To Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi : Part 4
The Mandi And Modern Supply Chains Dear Gandhi It’s been 150 years since you have returned from South Africa to propose your decentralized and localized economic models; and your nation is still obsessed with the same old imperialistic ideas of free trade and...
Letters To Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi : Part 3
Dear Gandhi Have you heard about the three bricklayers? Before I tell you their story, let me give you the context on why I am writing about these buggers to you. I guess you might have experienced the thing that I am sharing while you were leading these humans’...
Love
Love is in the air at India Fellow! Indeed, not even my previous fellowship can match the rate of romance here. We really ought to use this as a branding tool – "Join India Fellow! Get a girlfriend/boyfriend!" I imagine we’d have to hire some extra staff just to...
Warping Time
Warping time is equally an old concept as much as it is new. Modern times' way of warping time is quite limited in its scope, and does not really enter into our lives as much as the old concept used to and can. Their purposes are widely different. The new way of...
Letters To Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi : Part 2
Subject - Organization, Ideology And Work Mohan Bhai, Did you hear the term social enterprise yet? This concept of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship has received much attention since late 70's. What is it that is so explicitly social about any...
Consistency Of Jams And Projects
Consistency of a jam is nothing but a measure of its fluidity. Right consistency yields the utmost satisfaction to the palate. Two raw materials are responsible for the consistency, namely pectin and sugar. Pectin is more known of the two contributors. Ask people...
Letters To Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi : Part 1
Subject - Death Of Swaraj Dear Gandhi, Today we visited an Adivasi community in a village called Phala amidst the hills of Udaipur. The idea was to understand the lifestyle of the villagers by interacting with them. The village had 13 mohallas, the one we visited was...