Dec 15, 2022
Report

Report: Understanding Discourse Around Active Citizenship in India

Key Questions What are the major interests and online discourse around the four pillars of active citizenship—volunteerism, co-creation, claim-making and resistance & mobilisation in India? What are the key influences [...]
Oct 05, 2022
Podcast
Rohini Nilekani is an author and philanthropist who has worked for over three decades in India’s social sectors. She is the founder of Arghyam, a foundation for sustainable water and [...]
Abstract In 2020, India witnessed a national lockdown to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, heavily impacting access to food and livelihoods, particularly for the country’s most vulnerable groups. An estimated [...]
This is the most serious crisis since World War II. Politicians must step up; voters must allow them to. Politicians are elected because they campaign in poetry, but voters don’t [...]
Nov 19, 2017
Article
Seven years after Bill Gates pioneered the Giving Pledge, 171 ultra-wealthy people have vowed to give away at least half their wealth. Nandan and Rohini Nilekani have just become the [...]
Apr 28, 2015
Panel
This is an edited version of a panel discussion with Neera Nundy, Rikin Gandhi, Tim Hanstad, and Rohini Nilekani on Social Entrepreneurship: India at the Crosswords, at the 2015 Skoll [...]
Mar 02, 2006
Interview
The state government will now bank on the mother tongue to educate 1.5 lakh slum children and extend improved facilities for poor students in government schools. Speaking to reporters after [...]