In August 2017, a handful of professional experts came up with an idea of nurturing and fulfilling dreams for prospective entrepreneurs through the ALFA Network. They created a highly networked platform that had leaders, founders, and achievers who came together to foster and facilitate the growth o...
The Entrepreneurship Summit 2018 organized by the E-Cell, Jadavpur University, is a fantastic initiative to encourage budding entrepreneurs. I have been advised to speak on “Industry through a philanthropist’s lens”. It is a great subject. Philanthropy for most industrialists is a matter of jo...
The first thing any marketing or advertising wizard must know about branding for entrepreneurs is that entrepreneurs have no money.It can be a self-funded start-up or a start-up with a $100 million funding or a start-up that has bagged some of the largest VCs in the world. They still have no money, ...
So finally it came. The I&B Minister moved forward, then backward and then, forward again. The Minister announced that any journalist found involved in propagating ‘fake’ news would lose his government accreditation. The Prime Minister’s Office moved in promptly and the order was struck do...
State of MindAs our car pulled into the driveway, my father checked the mailbox. “Did it come? I gasped excitedly. The year was 1986, and I had been waiting in breathless anticipation for the past two days. I knew that the results of my black belt test had been mailed and my heart plummeted into m...
One of the most pertinent issues that troubles India is the issue of gender sensitivity. India is a country where female deities are worshipped; moreover, India itself is con- sidered as a ‘motherland’. In spite of such glorification, the Indian society hasn’t quite been the harbinger of gende...
The Women Self-Empowerment Mission is a noble initiative aimed at the self-empowerment of women from the Barhiya village situated in Bihar. This programme involves installation of solar charkas, which will enable women to spin yarn on a large scale. The programme was launched on April 1, 2018,...
Last year I went to the house of the head of a group of Jains in Nagpur. Along the way I was told how religious his family was, how they all ate before sunset and no root vegetables. I entered the main living room. The huge rug I was stepping on was made of patches sewn together of horse-skin. Young...
The Department of Food and Public Distribution ensures the remunerative rates for the farmers and supply of food grains through the Public Distribution System (PDS). They also implement the national policy for farm price support, operations, procurement, storage, preservation, inter-state movement a...
The state of Gujarat has extended the best technologies to farmers and has given them access to markets. There have been many admirers of Gujarat’s “agrarian miracle” when Narendra Modi was the state’s Chief Minister. Gujarat’s agri-GDP registered an unprecedented growth of 8% during 2002-...