Our World At TARAGRAM

I have been working with Technology and Action for Rural Advancement (TARA), the enterprise incubation wing of Development Alternatives Group for the last four months. This seems like a good time to elucidate what TARA does. Development Alternatives was founded by Dr....

On Caste: Prevelance and Severity

“Dwibedi… toh Brahmin ho?” “Umm… Haan” “ Achha. Kahan ke Brahmin ho?” “ Umm… humlog Kolkata mein rahte hain” “Achha. Toh Diwali ke time ghar nahi ja rahe ho?” “Nahin. Aap ticket dekh lijiye.” “Rahane do bitiyan. Sambhal ke jana” This is a snippet of the conversation I...

On Choices And The Power To Choose

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth – The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Every day, we make choices in our lives. And...

MSME: The Current Scenario

As part of my work with TARA, for the last few weeks, I had been doing a lot of research on various government schemes and provisions available for small loans for MSME entrepreneurs. In the process, I now have a much clearer picture of the MSME sector in India. MSME...