In the cockpit gently, the Ratan Tata mantra

Arun Maira

WITH Ratan Tata’s passing, the Tata Group, Indian business and the country have lost a great leader and role model. Ratan ...

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Mission impossible: Sam Singh gave Anupshahr girl power

Civil Society News

IF empowerment of young women is what is in mind, Anupshahr is not the easiest of places to begin. A ...

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Scientist who saw the future in small farmers

Rita and Umesh Anand

IT was over a phone call that Dr M.S. Swaminathan agreed to be chief guest at our first Civil Society ...

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The Vir Chopra we came to know and will always miss

By Umesh Anand

“I AM Vir Chopra,” said the very fit-looking and fair-skinned man of medium height, putting out his hand. “I would ...

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The good listener who took science to people

By Dunu Roy

ON May 21, an early Friday morning with the rain clouds skittering away across blue skies, Prof. Dinesh Mohan died ...

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A gentle crusader for justice, better governance

By The Praxis Team

ACTION Aid’s Praxis Institute for Participatory Practices was designed to specialize in participatory rural appraisal, a catchphrase that propagated the ...

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Thank you, Bahugunaji! You changed me forever!

By Rahul Ram

I met Sunderlal Bahugunaji in May 1980. About 20 teenagers from Delhi accompanied by one adult, descended on his ashram ...

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A caring industrialist who truly believed in giving

By Umesh Anand

AMONG the many remarkable people that the second wave of the virus carried away with it was Siddharth Shriram, a ...

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A mother to the girls in western UP's villages

By Civil Society Tribute

When the spheres conspire to put an NGO on earth, the outcome can be pretty much heavenly. It has been ...

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