[Editor’s Note: The title of this post is a tribute to the popular NPR/PRI radio program Selected Shorts. This post is a sampling of of tweets that I found interesting on day#2. The list could have been longer but it’s been 4-5 days and Twitter limits the tweets in its searches.]
Pankaj Khandelwal, Chairman & MD of InI Farms: profitable social objectives are not commercially viable w/out govt’s support. [\#SankalpForum](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23SankalpForum "#SankalpForum")
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Beyond Profit
beyondprofit
Pravesh: “rules of the game b/w govt and civil society are malleable” [\#sankalpforum](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23sankalpforum "#sankalpforum") “influenced by latter in many cases”
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Vishy Kuruganti
ulaar
Pravesh Sharma points out that social enterprises exist ONLY in democratic societies. [\#sankalpforum](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23sankalpforum "#sankalpforum")
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Vishy Kuruganti
ulaar
RT @[beyondprofit](http://twitter.com/beyondprofit) Fact: 20% of the world’s [\#child](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23child "#child") deaths occur in [\#India](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23India "#India"). [\#SankalpForum](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23SankalpForum "#SankalpForum") [\#globaldev](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23globaldev "#globaldev")
[less than a minute ago](http://twitter.com/#!/SuparnaMathur/status/66417940202913792 "Fri May 06 08:24:05 +0000 2011") via web [ Favorite](http://twitter.com/intent/favorite?tweet_id=66417940202913792) [ Retweet](http://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=66417940202913792) [ Reply](http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?in_reply_to=66417940202913792)
Suparna Mathur
SuparnaMathur
Nandu(mDhil):Taking care of people is paternalistic way to view healthcare. Educate people and watch them make better choices. [\#sankalpforum](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23sankalpforum "#sankalpforum")
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Aunnie Patton
aunnie
Ashwin(Vaatsalya): Need to focus on mothers health to solve infant mortality. [\#sankalpforum](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23sankalpforum "#sankalpforum")
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Aunnie Patton
aunnie
Promote health information, like safe sex, to the youth via phones — implemented by mDhil. [\#SankalpForum](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23SankalpForum "#SankalpForum")
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Beyond Profit
beyondprofit
Gautam Ivatury one of the better panel moderators at [\#sankalpforum](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23sankalpforum "#sankalpforum")
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Vishy Kuruganti
ulaar
Other moderator callout: Vineeth (panchabuta) for the clean energy sector. Very knowledgeable, great questions & moderation. [\#sankalpforum](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23sankalpforum "#sankalpforum")
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Vishy Kuruganti
ulaar
Ashwin(Vaatsalya): there is significant internal medical travel in India. Need to build options at village level. [\#sankalpforum](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23sankalpforum "#sankalpforum")
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YourStory
YourStorydotin
Anil(rsby):need to create health businesses & hospitals in rural. Create demand by providing rural poor w/ vouchers to spend. [\#sankalpforum](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23sankalpforum "#sankalpforum")
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YourStory
YourStorydotin
I think RSBY may be the most impressive private/public partnership I’ve seen at [\#sankalpforum](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23sankalpforum "#sankalpforum")
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Aunnie Patton
aunnie
Anil(rsby): of 23M smartcards issued, not one has been given to the wrong person. [\#sankalpforum](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23sankalpforum "#sankalpforum")
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Aunnie Patton
aunnie
Lot more investors type, lot less fire in the belly types [\#sankalpforum](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23sankalpforum "#sankalpforum") Inspired by super30 and mahajan’s financialisation of capital talk
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ashwinnaik
ashwinnaik
Prachi: India has 0.7 beds and 1.5 doctors for every 1000 – a global low. [\#sankalpforum](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23sankalpforum "#sankalpforum")
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Vishy Kuruganti
ulaar
‘We’ve never pitched (Milk Mantra) as a social venture..social impacts is simply part of our process’- Srikumar Misra [\#SankalpForum](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23SankalpForum "#SankalpForum")
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Dasra India
DasraIndia
Prachi Mathur(intellecap): $40 billion healthcare sector – 5% of GDP. Expected to be 7% by 2012. [\#sankalpforum](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23sankalpforum "#sankalpforum")
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Vishy Kuruganti
ulaar
Great Q! Sean (@[babajob](http://twitter.com/babajob)) how do we increase social value for philanthropists? Make it relevant to their status and prestige? [\#sankalpforum](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23sankalpforum "#sankalpforum")
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Aunnie Patton
aunnie
Edelweiss’ Rashesh proposes idea of ‘social credits’ (ala carbon credits). Rohini calls it Pandora’s box..disc peters out. [\#sankalpforum](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23sankalpforum "#sankalpforum")
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Vishy Kuruganti
ulaar
Fact: India ranked at #122 in a safe water index of 123 countries. [\#SankalpForum](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23SankalpForum "#SankalpForum")
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Beyond Profit
beyondprofit
Pradeep: counters Rashesh’s point that MFIs started off social and then became commercial. Reverse is true. [\#sankalpforum](http://twitter.com/search?q=%23sankalpforum "#sankalpforum")
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Vishy Kuruganti
ulaar