• [Grand Finale Finalist: 16/18] Vijay Bhaskar Reddy Dinnepu – Kisan Raja’s Automated Irrigation

    [Grand Finale Finalist: 16/18] Vijay Bhaskar Reddy Dinnepu – Kisan Raja’s Automated Irrigation

     Living Rise | March 29, 2012

    Meet Vijay Bhaskar Reddy Dinnepu, of Vinfinet Technologies. His for-profit business venture, “Kisan Raja,” supports end-to-end automated irrigation.

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  • [Grand Finale Finalist: 15/18] Dhruv Lakra – Mirakle Couriers, Delivering possibilities: a courier service employing underprivileged deaf adults

    [Grand Finale Finalist: 15/18] Dhruv Lakra – Mirakle Couriers, Delivering possibilities: a courier service employing underprivileged deaf adults

     Living Rise | March 29, 2012

    Meet Dhruv Lakra and Mirakle Couriers, a Mumbai-based, National Award-winning innovative courier company that employs low-income deaf adults. They offer their clients excellent logistical solutions, consistently providing them with reliable, efficient and customizable service, without compromising their social commitment to empower India's vast and very underserved deaf community.

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  • GOONJ: Changing Lives with the Forgotten Basic Need

    GOONJ: Changing Lives with the Forgotten Basic Need

     Agriculture & Rural Development | May 4, 2012

    Food, shelter, and clothing are the three most basic human...

  • Early Stage Impact Investing – Filling the Funding Gap

    Early Stage Impact Investing – Filling the Funding Gap

     Entrepreneurship | May 9, 2012

    More than 90% of rural India is living on less...

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  • [Grand Finale Finalist: 8/18] Gopal S. Agrawal – Krishi Go Sanskriti – Prosper with Desi Cows

    [Grand Finale Finalist: 8/18] Gopal S. Agrawal – Krishi Go Sanskriti – Prosper with Desi Cows

     Living Rise | March 23, 2012

    The Desi-cow is one of the most iconic symbols of India, but its existence is being threatened. Because the Desi-breed of cows produce less milk than crossbreeds they are economically less beneficial.

  • Mahindra Spark the Rise: A Pioneering Example of Corporate Citizenship in India

    Mahindra Spark the Rise: A Pioneering Example of Corporate Citizenship in India

     Culture & Education | May 17, 2012

    When I first came across ‘Spark the Rise’, it seemed...