Ashoka India Blog
Can you transform the lives of the rural poor in Bihar? Can your high-impact innovation lead to sustainable and scalable rural livelihood solutions? Are your ambitions to scale being held back by lack of access to new territories and local...
Tue, March 26, 2013
It's a credit to Amit Kataria, whose runs a computer literacy centre, that his name is the fourth hit when one types Choma in the Google search bar. Situated near the dusty, millennial city of Gurgaon in Haryana, Choma is Kataria's native village...
Fri, March 8, 2013
In the run-up to Women’s Day, we often discuss ways in which we can create systems and programmes that can benefit women and improve their status. What differentiates the solutions that work from those that don’t? At Ashoka, we believe that co-...
Mon, March 4, 2013
Like oil in the 20th century, water could well be the essential commodity on which the 21st century will turn. Water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century (Source: Reuters). India’s huge and...
Thu, February 21, 2013
Getting it Right, LegallyHow can laws in India fasten, and not halt the process of justice? Supreme Court advocate, Karuna Nandy, writes that both, as major tenets, determines how we live our modern lives, and should adapt to each other.The laws of...
Fri, February 8, 2013
In September 2012, I was selected as one of Ashoka's Lead ChangeMakers from Bangalore. Personally, I have come a long way from being a speaker at Ashoka Green Plan IT in 2011 to being recognised as a Changemaker. This time the mandate was very...
Tue, November 27, 2012
Where does the future of agriculture in India lie? To find out, join us on #RIFtalks at @AshokaIndia to talk to Ashoka Fellow, Vijay Pratap Singh, Founder of Ekgaon Technologies. Learn how the latest agri-technologies and innovations are...
Tue, November 27, 2012
Education is a labor-intensive activity that depends on well-implemented capacity building policies. Trainers, teachers and students are the conduits of the process. Hence, people management plays a pivotal role in ensuring the success of endeavors...
Fri, September 7, 2012
Ashoka Innovators for the Public in partnership with TUVRheinland announces a Creative Identity competition!CONTEXTGLOBAL: Over one billion people-32% of the global urban population-live in slums in developing countries and are shut out of the...
Mon, September 3, 2012
Ashoka is pleased to announce that it has chosen two young social entrepreneurs as India’s first Lead Changemakers (LCMs): Kuldeep Dantewadia - founder of Reap Benefit, and Arundhuti Gupta – founder of Mentor Together. Ashoka, in association...
