India@70: The Anxiety of Asymmetry
BY Vijay Mahajan The dream of inclusive, sustainable development will remain unfulfilled unless we acknowledge and address the deep imbalances that threaten to weaken the idea of this nation. On…
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Agriculture
Social action in India: Past, present, future
BY Vijay Mahajan Looking at social action in India from 1947 onwards, and given where we are today, here’s why we need civil society as a balancing force between the…
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Power Play: Can Energy Access Entrepreneurs Survive the Relentless March of Grid Electricity in India?
BY ANANTH ARAVAMUDAN When Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared on April 28 that the grid had finally reached the last unelectrified village in India, he set off a wave of…
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An untapped opportunity in employability
BY Sukriti Somvanshi and Vikash Jha New jobs created over the next five years will be largely in the informal sector. Therein lies the opportunity to skill the informal workforce,…
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Striding their way to create social impact – insights from women entrepreneurs
BY SUKRITI SOMVANSHI Women entrepreneurs, for decades, have had a significant role to play in the development of local economies, which further fed into the overall development paradigm. The contemporary…
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The bell curve of altruism
We need to look beyond our existing definitions and approaches to funding, talent, and partnerships, if we are to address social problems at scale. By P R Ganapathy One…
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Your Customers Aren’t Data Points: How Social Enterprises Can Avoid Three Impact Investor Red Flags
At Villgro, a social enterprise funder and incubator, and our sister fund, the Menterra Social Impact Fund, we meet hundreds of entrepreneurs each year. While there’s a lot of material on the…
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A Week in the Field with our Entrepreneurs
Earlier this year the Artha and Menterra teams took a step back to visit a number of our portfolio companies across India and below are some highlights from that informative,…
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