This post is written by Sujoy Dhar of Team Samhita. Honour killing is a great Indian paradox in the times when a new permissiveness sweeps the society. As the sexual minority celebrates the landmark Delhi High Court verdict of July last year that decriminalized homosexuality, couples belonging to the sexual majority fall prey to an [...]

As of today, the the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) will launch its first large-scale national test. The UIDAI is tasked with the ambitious scheme to provide unique and standardized identification numbers to Indian residents. Mint profiles the remarkable social marketing challenge facing the UIDAI and the team of top social marketers hired to [...]

The Rural Tourism Network Enterprise (RTNE), a social enterprise, has made a unique venture in tourism sector which brings much needed alternate livelihood opportunity to village entrepreneurs while providing a budget travel option for tourists. The business model is outlined in an article in Business Standard thus. “RTNE identifies local entrepreneurs to form a Destination [...]

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This post is written by Sujoy Dhar of Team Samhita. Prasanna, now 19, works as a Sports Leader in Dream Football programme, an initiative run by Bangalore-based NGO Dream A Dream. Prasanna joined the sports programme seven years ago. Coming from a violent, conflict-ridden background, the sports programme helped him channelize his violence positively into sport to [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-04 via ThinkChange India – – Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-27 via … http://tinyurl.com/32l6fb2 # A successful PPP in gyanecological care between Surya Clinic & NHRM http://goo.gl/kvte # EDI launches new PG diploma on Social Entrepreneurship – Times of India http://goo.gl/owfD # Punjab launches free technical education scheme | iGovernment.in http://goo.gl/ahxZ [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-27 via ThinkChange India – – Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-20 via … http://tinyurl.com/29puvhq # “Daily Dump” looking for an intern via ThinkChange India – EkShoch has posted an internship requirement … http://tinyurl.com/2bvdfv5 # AP to dispose RTI cases via video conferencing http://goo.gl/EiYA # Piramal Prize 2010 to enable innovative ideas [...]

The ThinkChange India staff is committed to providing our readers with interviews with people we believe are at the brink of something special but have for the most part been overlooked by the mainstream media. Readers will be able to see other conversations under our TC-I Changemakers tag. In this edition, TC-I Changemaker features Waste Ventures, [...]

The Piramal Foundation has partnered with the Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship at IIM Ahmedabad to offer the “Piramal Prize 2010” – to enable bold entrepreneurial ideas with potential to reduce the burden of disease across India. The two winners will receive prize money equal to Rs. 10,000,000 each! The prize will be done in [...]

EkShoch has posted an internship requirement at ”Daily Dump” – a bangalore-based green social enterprise that promotes waste reduction by selling compost pots that makes composting easier and spreading awareness about composting. The requirement is for an illustrator who would assist various projects of Daily Dump by way of illustrations that would catch the attention of [...]