Early this month, one news article caught the corporate world by storm. Zappos CEO, Tony Hseih sent an internal memo to his company, which looked like the scene where Neo was asked by Morpheus in Matrix to chose the blue or the red pill. Zappos is going to be self organised and self managed – and will […]
Its a joy to meet George. He is full of life and ideas. I had a chance to catch up with him after couple of years in Bangalore. We spoke about all the interesting things he has been working on – the TV show – Nazar ya Nazariya with Naseeruddin Shah, The EYEWAY project for […]
Its a joy to meet George. He is full of life and ideas. I had a chance to catch up with him after couple of years in Bangalore. We spoke about all the interesting things he has been working on – the TV show – Nazar ya Nazariya with Naseeruddin Shah, The EYEWAY project for […]
How can every child in India get the most appropriate treatment when they need it, irrespective of location and ability to pay. This is Dr Sai’s mission of life. When we were talking about some statistics, she simply said “I don’t have the statistics, all i know is that we need action”. And she IS action. She founded Ekam about […]
The journey of a social entrepreneur is full of ups and downs. Many give up on the struggle and many live to tell the tale. The only difference between the two is the never give up attitude. It doesnt mean that they are immune to the downs or not think of giving up, but they […]
I spent three days at this amazing Un-conference put together by the WPP team in Jaipur. One of the events at Stream India was Ignite Talks– a four minute 15 slide talk anything under the sun. I spoke about Parasitic Innovation You can see the slides here and it got me an award for the […]
When a human heart was being loaded into an ambulance at the General Hospital around 6.40pm on Monday, 6km away, at Light House, traffic inspector Uday Kumar’s walkietalkie crackled to life. He had been preparing for this moment.The ambulance bearing the heart – harvested from a 27-year-old brain-dead man in GH and to be transplanted […]
#5 Corruption is a cancer and India will not make any progress if we are pulled back everytime by corruption, in every sphere of life. There is only one party which has made this issue a priority and gone for the jugular. If we shake this system of absolutely blatant systemic and endemic corruption, our […]
RSBY is a government initiative to provide health insurance for BPL families, domestic workers, street vendors, Bidi workers, rag pickers, Autoricks & taxi drivers, safai karmacharis, construction workers, postmen, railway porters & hawkers. This scheme is run by the labour department & http://datingsupportnetwork.com/the-tao-of-badass not by the Health department. For all above mentioned workers except BPL families […]
Taking my daughter to school everyday is an adventure. Traffic is piled up all allroads and anxious parents with kids in hurry are cutting everyone else in all directions. One of the major bottlenecks is the intersection of inner circle and ecc road. And this is where an autodriver took it upon himself to help […]