Tag: development

  • Five ‘Extinct’ Animals That Are Alive And Well

    WITH human beings at the focus of all development, conversation about conservation rarely takes centre stage. One consequence of this tunnel vision, is that ecosystems crumble and animals go extinct. The urgent need to protect our bees is just one example. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) releases a Red List of threatened species every year of…

  • Got EQ? Here’s Why You’ll Be Valued In the Development Sector

    EMOTIONAL Quotient: The magic ingredient that makes you a valuable addition to any organisation, especially in the impact sector. For years we’ve heard how important it is to have high EQ and how emotional intelligence helps us get ahead in life. So what are the signs of EQ? We put together a few tell-tale signs that…

  • Small Talk With Kiran Bir Sethi

    CHANGE leaders do great things, and often that is all we know about them. Here we want to get a different glimpse of the personalities that constitute the development space. Every month we ask one leader to answer our four quirky questions. This week we catch up with KIRAN BIR SETHI, the founder of Design…

  • Small Talk With Akshai Abraham

    CHANGE leaders do great things, and often that is all we know about them. Here we want to get a different glimpse of the personalities that constitute the development space. Every month we ask one leader to answer our four quirky questions. This week we catch up with AKSHAI ABRAHAM, the founder of Project Khel.…

  • Real Impact Takes Time

     By ANU GUMMARAJU —- YOU can’t go far in Bangalore without bumping into someone who works in the social impact sector. You also can’t work in the social impact sector without hitting a Venture Capitalist, someone who knows a VC, or a few VC firms. And there’s literally only a degree of separation from people we know and…