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Announcing Tata Social Enterprise Challenge

Vishy KurugantiDecember 18, 20121 mins

2012 has been the year of social enterprise challenges and social enterprise incubators in India. The exciting addition to the former is Tata Group’s announcement of the Tata Social Enterprise…

Most Indian men are Cambridge Men

Vishy KurugantiDecember 06, 20122 mins

Pic courtesy merrittolson.wordpress.com At some point in your school (or college) years, you might have heard of this joke. Following the annual debate competition between Oxford University and…

Meet the Indian Howard Lutnick: actually you know him well

Vishy KurugantiNovember 30, 20123 mins

If this is the first time you’ve heard of Howard Lutnick (or Cantor Fitzgerald), do read this, this, and this. Yesterday, I came across a FUCCHA post that listed out a long list of wonderfully…

Siemens Stiftung announces the Empowering People Award

Vishy KurugantiNovember 27, 20122 mins

Pic courtesy siemens-stiftung.org [Update: The deadline for the award application has been extended to Jan 31, 2013.] Munich-based Siemens Stiftung (“foundation” in German) wants to identify efficient…

Once upon a time in Seattle

Vishy KurugantiNovember 24, 20125 mins

B was born into an upper middle class family in Seattle. Born in the mid 1950s, B had two sisters and showed early signs of competitiveness when he organized family athletic games at their summer…

Justrojgar – India's newest BOP employment exchange

Vishy KurugantiNovember 21, 20121 mins

Pic courtesy arpitnext.com Seattle and Bangalore-based Upaya Social Ventures alerted me about their recent investment into Justrojgar.com. While terms of the deal are not disclosed, Upaya has…

Rockefeller Innovation Challenge Winners

Vishy KurugantiNovember 15, 20123 mins

Back in May, I wrote about Rockefeller Foundation’s Innovation Challenge 2012 – a call for ideas in three key areas (Farming, Irrigation and Decoding Data). The panel of judges selected fifteen…

Making Knowledge Mobile: Agricultural Advice Only a Phone Call Away for Indian Farmers

Vishy KurugantiOctober 25, 20123 mins

[Editor’s Note: CABI is a not-for-profit international organization that improves people’s lives by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the…

Intuit Fasal quietly disrupting the farm market intelligence space

Vishy KurugantiOctober 10, 20124 mins

A happy Fasal farmer (Pic courtesy intuit.com) What happens when you breed JustDial and ZipDial with a Nasdaq 100 software company in the Indian rural countryside? You get Intuit Fasal – a powerful…

Omnivore's appetite for agri technologies beginning to show

Vishy KurugantiOctober 03, 20121 mins

Tractor-operated seed drill (Pic courtesy khedutagro.com) Livemint reported yesterday that Omnivore Capital made two investments in agtech companies. The two companies, Rajkot-based Khedut Agro…

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