This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. India’s water woes are well documented. The news keeps getting worse: Kornik, a town near the border with Tibet, went dry last summer because of reductions in snowfall and unpredictable…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Women are rewriting the story of India, and of the 21st century. Over the next two decades, the gains of India’s 650 million women will power global progress not only…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “Philanthropy in India,” a working paper by Caroline Hartnell published by PSJP in association with WINGS, Alliance and the Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy at Ashoka University, confirms this, bringing to light a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Two years ago, McKinsey reported that achieving gender parity in India by 2025 would have a greater economic impact than in any other region in the world. The report, “The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For a country that has given rise to a powerful philosophy of peaceful civil disobedience, India has had multiple female heads of state and is a backbone of the tech…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new vaccine against rotavirus made by the Serum Institute of India — the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer — and tested in Niger by Médecins Sans Frontières, is being hailed as a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Gayathri hails from Kolar, a district in Karnataka over 60 km away from Bengaluru. She lost her father when she was a child and was raised by her mother. In…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Billionaires in the West are donating most of their wealth to charities, leaving very little inheritance to their children, scream media headlines, prompting the question, “Are Indians miserly when it…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. According to UNICEF, 75 million children are out of school in the world today due to emergencies. This year during the 2017 floods in India, 12.33 million children have been…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you think of a social-change effort as a fraction, the denominator represents the size of a given social need, while the numerator exemplifies what a given organization is currently…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Half of all primary-care clinics in India lack access to regular, reliable supplies of electricity, affecting almost 40 million households. The result: power outages during childbirths, loss of vital…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By the beginning of 2014 I had spent nearly thirty years studying or promoting Indian philanthropy, and I felt that it was time to distill the learning from this experience…