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Uncommon Ground: Path to India’s future
In 2008, Rohini Nilekani did the near-impossible by bringing sets of for profit business leaders and not-for-profit social leaders together on a TV show for focused debates on issues crucial to India’s future. Now, she has turned those discussions into her latest book, Uncommon Ground. The author-social activist-philanthropist spoke to Sangeetha Chengappa ahead of the […]
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Uncommon Ground – The employment exchange
Exclusive extracts from Rohini Nilekani’s ‘Uncommon Ground’, in which Sunil Mittal and Aruna Roy debate job creation in India. India’s demographic trajectory is such that, for the next twenty years, about 1 million people will enter the workforce every month. Will there be a sufficient number of jobs for them all? And will these jobs […]
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Uncommon Ground – Rohini Nilekani – Hindi
Uncommon Ground – Rohini Nilekani – Hindi. Bhaskar Business. View PDF
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Bestsellers – Uncommon Ground – Rohini Nilekani
Bestsellers – Uncommon Ground – Rohini Nilekani. The Tribune. View PDF
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Uncommon Ground – Rohini Nilekani – Business Standard
Uncommon Ground – Rohini Nilekani. Business Standard. View PDF
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Water Challenges Asia’s Rising Powers – Part II
By July this year, the monsoon has established itself vigorously over much of the subcontinent. The anxieties of the long, intense summer months, when nations hold their collective breath in anticipation of the cooling, life-giving rain, have receded. But the region’s1.6 billion people know that next summer, the worres will return. Water is ultimately a […]
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Entrepreneur Wisdom – Discussion – TiE Stree Shakti initiative
Rohini Nilekani and Rama Bijapurkar share their views on women entrepreneurship Chat Over Chai. View Video
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Skills vs. Passion: The Challenges for Corporate Professionals Who Move into the Social Sector
Professionals “are very impatient to scale, and don’t realize that in the social sector, what to scale is more critical than how to scale,” says Rohini Nilekani, philanthropist and founder of Arghyam, a Bangalore-based NGO. Corporate professionals, Nilekani adds, tend to have a strong and mistaken belief in the power of the markets to solve […]
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Freedom At High Noon – The great leap created wealth for some. Public policy must spread it evenly.
INDIA’S shift towards a market economy was like a volcanic eruption, the lava of which is still spreading through society. Its impact, along with globalisation, has greatly benefited many people, but especially those who already had significant advantages created for them by the erstwhile^ more socialist regime The urbanising middle class of the 1960s and […]
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UNCOMMON GROUND: DIALOGUES WITH BUSINESS AND SOCIAL LEADERS – Rohini Nilekani
Excerpted with the permission of Penguin Books India from the book Uncommon Ground: Dialogues between Business and Social Leaders by Rohini Nilekani. View PDF