This post is written by MathuKathe creator, Nandan Rajan. Imagine trying to find a job without phone, email or internet! You can’t post your profile on job portals, call up companies or email your profile. You are only allowed to talk to friends, relatives and the local recruitment agent that you get to hear by [...]

Only 45% children in Rajasthan in Std. V can read Class II level text (Source – ASER 2009) Read Rajasthan is a 3 year initiative to change this! On 23rd august 2010, Government of Rajasthan has signed a MoU with Pratham Rajasthan for improving the quality of education in close to 3000 government schools of [...]

Editor’s note: The ThinkChange India staff is committed to providing our readers with interviews of 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, TCI-changemaker focuses on [...]

Indicorps, known for its one-year fellowship program, is now launching a new Young Professional Initiative program that allows young Indian professionals to apply their time and skills to a short-term project.  The five-month program includes a one-week orientation, a mid-term workshop, an immersion component, and regular reflections.  If you are ready to get your feet [...]

Google India didn’t just settle with their Internet bus; Google India Labs has now released the Google Noticeboard.   Through a public digital noticeboard, the noticeboard may just bring social interaction up to a whole other level: Communities with access to shared computers can use the Noticeboard for exchanging messages related to community announcements, social interactions, [...]

This week has had no shortage of announcements of accepting nominations for some competitions and the unveiling of winners from others. Today, IndiaPRwire reports that the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, Schwab Foundation, and UNDP has picked finalists for the 2008 Social Entrepreneurship of the Year Award. The Award recognizes individuals who offer the most [...]

Editor’s Note: Aparna Dalal works with the Financial Access Initiative, a research consortium between New York University, Harvard, Yale, and Innovations for Poverty Action. FAI is focused on finding answers to how financial services can better meet the needs of poor households. FAI aims to provide rigorous research on the impacts of financial access and [...]

The computer manufacturers Dell is now calling upon motivated individuals to “develop a generation of young people across the globe prepared to connect.” In order to accomplish this goal of producing a new wave of customers for its products, Dell has started the Dell YouthConnect: India, a program intended to support individuals with ideas and plans [...]

One poem that always inspires me is “If” by Rudyard Kipling. Its starting lines came to my mind when I learned about Brij Kothari and his brainchild PlanetRead: If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt [...]

One finds heroes in the most unlikely of places and amongst the most unlikely of persons. The unlikely place – “a little-noticed corner of India, in the Bulandshahr district of western Uttar Pradesh” The unlikely person – “Virendra (Sam) Singh”, belonging to a male dominated family of zamindars and who was at a point of [...]