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FICCI has started a new series of seminars on Governance & Politics. Today was their first conference with Administrative Reforms Commission chair Veerappa Moily and others. I also spoke on the panel, got about 10 mins of time. In the audience…

Check out this great DVD 2 Million Minutes! I learned about it thanks to Sudhakar: “The producer of the DVD, Bob Compton, is a venture capitalist and an angel investor in several technology companies worldwide. His venture funding includes…

Manish Sabharwal is right on the ball in today’s Mint: “By demanding fiscal relief, do managers realize or care about the damage they do to the legitimacy of markets when voters and politicians see private profits and socialized losses?…

Nandita Das takes on two members of the Censor Board, Deepmala Mohan and Aruna Mukim, and tells them where they should take their scissors! In the heat of the discussion, one member reveals that the Board is thinking of A+ rating for adult films for people over the age of…

2008 has indeed been an eventful year with a serious impact on how we think about ourselves and the world. My one learning was in preparing for a talk for the Foundation for Restoration of National Values. What are these values, how do we come to acquire them and why do we follow them? All the…

Jason Saul provides an interesting way to think about the question that worries all nonprofits, particularly think tanks: How do we know whether we are making an impact? What convinced to read more of his writings was how he began in the piece: “…it’s not that…