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Podcasts at Impact Failure
More families having electricity at their homes. Fewer women and children suffering ill health from cooking due to open fires. People at…
SELCO Foundation
Sep 10, 2018
Glimpses from the Impact Failure Conclave
Failures in Entrepreneurship and Investment
Failures in Entrepreneurship and Investment
“There is a need to set up an environment to talk about our collective failures” Elena Casolari began, setting the appropriate tone for the…
SELCO Foundation
Sep 7, 2018
Failures in Education
Failures in Education
“We have to remember Bellary when we talk about the history of education in India.” says G. Gauthama, outlining the trajectory of the…
SELCO Foundation
Sep 7, 2018
Failures in Healthcare
Failures in Healthcare
Health and healthcare can be a field where failures carry fundamental, tangible repercussions. As Ashwin Naik chooses to regard it, “These…
SELCO Foundation
Sep 7, 2018
Failures in Philanthropy
Failures in Philanthropy
Pakzan Dastoor of Dasra, is the first to admit our collective ability to talk about the failures of others but not our own. When it comes…
SELCO Foundation
Sep 6, 2018
Failures Of Built Environments
Failures Of Built Environments
Reflecting on his work in Chandigarh with the revolutionary modernist architect Le Corbusier, the recent Pritzker award winner B.V Doshi…
SELCO Foundation
Sep 6, 2018
Failures in Energy Access
Failures in Energy Access
India’s premier Energy Access organisations share their stories of Failure
SELCO Foundation
Sep 3, 2018
Stories of Failure
Pakzaan Dastoor (Dasra) on Failure in Philanthropy
Pakzaan Dastoor (Dasra) on Failure in Philanthropy
What is the role of philanthropy? Have we become too caught up in our notions of failure? If philanthropy doesn’t take risks, who will? Do…
SELCO Foundation
Sep 11, 2018
Thulasiraj (Aravind Eye Care) on Failure: Working Models that can Fail
Thulasiraj (Aravind Eye Care) on Failure: Working Models that can Fail
How do we know if we’re actually on the right path? What does it take for us to realise that things are not as ideal as they seem? If it’s…
SELCO Foundation
Sep 11, 2018
Bijal Brahmbhatt (Mahila Housing SEWA Housing Trust) on Failure: Public-Private Partnerships
Bijal Brahmbhatt (Mahila Housing SEWA Housing Trust) on Failure: Pu...
What do failures look like in a public-private partnership? Is there an ideal way to deal with communities in such a set-up? Where does the…
SELCO Foundation
Sep 11, 2018
Gauthama (Paathshala) on Failure: Education in India
Gauthama (Paathshala) on Failure: Education in India
“Why do governments pursue policy that works against their self-interest?” says Gauthama quoting Barbara W. Tuch, in an effort to draw a…
SELCO Foundation
Sep 11, 2018
Ashok Kamath’s (Akshara Foundation) Failure: Systemic Failures in Education
Ashok Kamath’s (Akshara Foundation) Failure: Systemic Failures in E...
“There’s no doubt our intentions are good” says Ashok Kamath of Akshara Foundation, “But these intentions are not backed by planning and…
SELCO Foundation
Sep 11, 2018
Jayamala Subramaniam on Failure: Pilots vs Scale
Jayamala Subramaniam on Failure: Pilots vs Scale
“Pilots never fail, but they never scale” begins Jayamala Subramaniam, attempting to formulate her own idea of why scale is such a common…
SELCO Foundation
Sep 11, 2018
Ramasubramaniam V (Village Energy Renewable Solutions) on Failure: Great projects fail too
Ramasubramaniam V (Village Energy Renewable Solutions) on Failure: ...
Could your objectives clash with the path of development? How important is competition in the larger scheme of things? Are good intentions…
SELCO Foundation
Sep 11, 2018
Yogesh Jadega (Arid Communities and Technologies) on Failure: Knowledge gap
Yogesh Jadega (Arid Communities and Technologies) on Failure: Knowl...
Does bad training or a lack of it altogether lead to failure? Are good intentions enough when you can’t influence the right people? What is…
SELCO Foundation
Sep 11, 2018
Santosh Noronha (IIT Bombay) on Failure: No Failures in Academia
Santosh Noronha (IIT Bombay) on Failure: No Failures in Academia
What does failure look like within the confines of academia? Do the roots of our problem lie in the very mindset we have about failure…
SELCO Foundation
Sep 11, 2018
Anish Kumar (TRIF) his Failure: Closing your eyes to needs of the community
Anish Kumar (TRIF) his Failure: Closing your eyes to needs of the c...
Are most of our failures merely a failure of understanding a particular problem? What does one do when they realise they’ve tread the wrong…
SELCO Foundation
Sep 11, 2018
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