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Cutting out corruption
WE live in a world where we have built the cost of corruption into our transactions. Whether it is getting ...
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New beginnings for NGOs
The unprecedented crisis surrounding the coronavirus pandemic has touched the lives of millions of people and organizations in different ways. ...
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Virus taught us a lesson
THE COVID-19 crisis has shown us that crises have no borders or boundaries. They can happen anytime, anywhere and to ...
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The virus unites us
A lot has changed in the past month. The COVID-19 crisis has thrown up challenges on the public health front ...
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Learning by doing
Young Mara came rushing to me in a very disturbed frame of mind. He was then studying in Class 3 ...
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On foot in rural India
It was 12 years ago, in 2008, that I set out on a walk across rural Karnataka. Spread over 30 days, ...
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Masthi and the bees
There is so much talk today about the GDP and the economy not doing well across the political and business ...
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The value of team spirit
More than two decades ago, we petitioned the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on behalf of the indigenous tribals living ...
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The silent bystander
Imbued with the desire to enhance citizen engagement and take it beyond mere voting, I launched a programme called ‘Making ...
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Bridging the trust deficit
We live in a world where we see such degradation of human values and corruption all around that we now ...
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Recovering lost childhood
A few months ago, I was taken by a friend who works with an NGO to visit a special school ...
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A way out of poverty
I first met Shivakumara when I got to travel in the cab that he was driving. It was around midnight ...
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The trust deficit
A few years ago, I was in Bengaluru to attend a meeting called by the government of Karnataka. On my ...
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A new path for tribal women
You do not usually expect the presence of 14 women dressed in all their finery at a busy shopping mall ...
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Why Gandhi still inspires
The entire nation will be marking Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary throughout 2019. For many like me, born in independent ...
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