
Earlier Stories:
Clothier to the poor:
Since 1998, Anshu Gupta’s Goonj has innovated in many ways to deepen our superficial awareness of the importance of clothes for the poor
A rare and enviable school:
The free school for the poor he founded in 1894, is an equal legacy of Henry Steel Olcott to the Theosphical Society that he co-founded and promoted
Making the foot run:
Not many know that top bureaucrat D R Mehta’s 30 year long commitment and leadership are what revived the famed Jaipur foot from slumber and taken it to a third of a million people round the world
Raging into the night:
The creation of Yusuf Meherally Centre near Mumbai is only a part of Mangla Behn and Dr G G Parikh’s 62 year commitment to India. Their smiles belie their fire.
A magic wand to zap plastics:
Alka Zadgaonkar conjures up a way to end waste plastics menace by creating value for collectors and processors
A U-Turn at B-School:
M P Vasimalai’s rural upbringing made him turn back to rural India, soon as he graduated from IIM-A
Reality catches up with GNI’s Publisher:
Having published GoodNewsIndia since 2000, it was hard to overlook MGM Beach Resort’s ways in my own backyard.
The road from Marx turns right at Gandhi:
Mary and Bablu didn’t settle at Timbaktu to retire, but to begin again with the conviction that nature is what really matters.
Dreams come true in Ratnagiri:
An unlikely team of clerks in government offices in Mumbai are reaching out to rural school children in Ratnagiri district
Battling for governance :
Parivartan’s unknown little Indians like Santosh, have fought to clear the thickets to form tracks to good governance.
The Ganga in the sky:
Residents and establishments in Tamil Nadu have taken to rain water harvesting and water recycling proving that local action can alleviate shortages.
The two-pit privy man:
Perfecting a simple sanitation solution and getting it to revolutionise Indian society has taken 35 years of Dr Bindeshwar Pathak’s life
Young voices rising:
Nandana Reddy and Damu Acharya have approached the issue of India’s working children by creating activists from children’s own ranks.
Minimalism in service:
Dada Lakhiani is a role model for everyone who is sitting out for the right time, funds and opportunity to do something for India.
Staring down droughts:
Amidst the gloom of droughts and suicides, we have this transformation of farmers who will look a drought in its eye.
A Gandhi education pays off:
Cherkady Ramachandra Rao, now 86, lost his parents when 2, found Gandhi when 7, and has not been lost ever since.
Inside China’s anti-poverty success:
Does China’s economic performance show-up India, or are there some unique merits in our system that we do not value sufficiently?
Beyond even his dreams:
When J Krishnamurthy spotted that banyan tree in 1925, it is doubtful if he envisioned how it might change the grim landscape and lives around it.
Enfolding the lost ones in Goa:
Bernadette D’Souza and Gregory D’Costa strive for the dignity of immigrants who built today’s shining Goa - and, are abandoned on its streets to their own devices.
Jim Garthe’s innovation:
The pioneering work of Jim Garthe at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, in converting plastic waste into an energy resource has a great significance for India’s environment.
Help for puzzled visitors:
Caring for autistic and special children in India, has been entirely mothers’ and private citizens’ effort, as typified by Shristi Special Academy in Bangalore.
World standard toilets:
Since 1999, Fuad Lokhandwala has been demonstrating in New Delhi that building and running toilets to world standards is possible along sound commercial lines.
The new Indian rope-trick :
In the decade since it opened its economy, India has survived early shocks and has now assimilated with elan the tricks of making good profits in world markets.
A daughter returns:
Anuradha Bakhshi’s sense of debt to India is over-imagined considering how little she has taken from this land but therein lies a lesson for many of us who have drawn much.
Digging deep into Sanskrit:
Prof. Lakshmi Thathachar at Melkote is a teacher, ecologist, animal breeder, computer adept and a champion of Sanskrit as an unmined knowledge source.
Where water flows in veins:
The Smile Index of children and adults here, proves that the networked farm pond idea pioneered by BAIF’s branch in Tiptur, Karnataka is a success worth replication.
Biodiesel goes from lab to land:
Prof Shrinivasa’s SuTRA has proved to India’s tribal people that biodiesel is the best way to electrify their homes. And they are making a revolution of it.
After micro credit, it’s micro capital, now:
Aavishkaar is a pioneer attempt by India’s overseas professionals to bring venture capitalism to socially, environmentally relevant small businesses.
A Marathon man in village-India:
The success of Rangaswamy Elango at Kuthambakkam village justifies the hope that Gram Swaraj will yet bloom all across India.
A soldier’s march into peace:
Anna Hazare’s work with Ralegan Siddhi has thrown up a model for all round development of India’s villages.
This postman delivered more than mail:
This vintage classic from the 1930s should give us heart because it shows service to fellowman is intrinsic to Indian way of life.
Bridges to mainstream life:
Girish Bharadwaj’s foot bridges for isolated villages are transforming communities—and are aesthetic as well
Aug 22, 2006
For a man who was all of 90 years when he died yesterday, Bismillah Khan, the shehnai grandmaster, has triggered off a wave of national grief. If Banaras is the soul of India, the Ustad was the soul of Banaras. He was charmingly, defiantly loyal to his values.
Winner of the highest national award, the Bharat Ratna, he spurned ostentatious living, but provided for a household of 66. He preferred to travel by cycle rickshaws and trains and chose modest hotels when he travelled. A devout Muslim who prayed five times a day, he was also a devotee of Baba Vishwanath of Kashi and Goddess Saraswati. He refused to air-condition his house since his neghbours could not afford to do likewise.
He spurned a Rockefeller Fellowship that would have required him to live away from his beloved Banaras, asking “where will I find Baba Vishwanath and Ganga?”
Get to know him at this link.
Random picks:
Very few Indian commentators have bothered to question Transparency International’s techniques
Mar 04, 2004:ResourcesIt takes 60 years to replace a 60 foot tree but only 60 days to replace a 60 foot bamboo
Dec 31, 2003:NewsclipArmy may be the right means to deliver this development message.
Dec 25, 2003:Energy“The coming crisis will no doubt affectt India badly, but it also presents us an opportunity to implement a holistic response.”
Aug 20, 2006:ActivismGovernment’s decision to not amend the RTI Act ‘for now’ is only an interim victory, but the campaign to gain it, is a landmark triumph of citizens’ collective action.
Dec 10, 2004:ElsewhereGreg’s voice is gentle — it merely informs. There are no harangues at this site.
Feb 20, 2003:Newsclip“We owe this tremendous success to college girls and rural women.”
May 21, 2003:Ideas For IndiaThe Van Ooetegham discovery seems precisely targeted at India.
Nov 26, 2003:Memory Speaks“We wouldn’t return home till we had done the rounds of at least 20-30 homes”
Dec 16, 2002:EconomyIndia’s big IT companies are bigger than you think
Dec 10, 2002:Economy‘Just wing it’ is not part of the Indian culture
Oct 29, 2003:InnovationLuckily,India has already exhausted that reflex reaction of shallow thinking: ‘ban plastics!’
Sep 15, 2005:NewsclipCMS study has showed which products of reforms have worked: information technology and legislation, smaller-sized states and true competition.
The areas of his work may mystify the best of us but let us try
Oct 02, 2002:InitiativeToday only 75,000 chirus are left on this planet
Jan 17, 2003:EnthusiastHe has so far brought back 80 species of mango and jack-fruit
Dec 12, 2002:NewsclipLanguage is not the barrier - it is the challenge to create a PC that will
May 12, 2004:EnergyIndia has entered into an agreement with Russia and some exploratory work has begun.
Aug 10, 2003:InitiativeA waste disposal problem turns into an answer for hunger
Nov 12, 2002:ResourcesGSPC’s designated field of 1850 sq.km needs shallower drilling
May 17, 2003:EnthusiastWhether or not you agree with him, you will find yourself asking some new questions.
Jan 15, 2003:EconomyIndian manufacturing efficiency is on a roll
Nov 28, 2002:TrendThere are today 450 women pilots in the Indian Air Force
Sep 02, 2003:Ideas For India“Seed balls are a small universe in themselves.”
May 08, 2004:GovernanceIndia has taken the first tentative step towards a full-fledged law to protect whistleblowers.
Jan 22, 2004:EconomyCairn discovery was made precisely on river Sarasvati’s banks
Apr 13, 2004:EconomyIncrease in credit and at cheap rates will spur investments and create jobs.
Oct 19, 2005:SciencesAn Indian scientist explains why the feared pandemic killing a hundred million will not come about. Is it scare mongering then, by commercial interests pushing drugs?
Feb 05, 2004:Memory SpeaksKhalid Chacha had decided that only Mummy could get him to study, so Umar would live with us.
Jun 22, 2003:EnthusiastAmong the few things that a man in uniform gets in India when he retires is, faith and love of his land.
Feb 19, 2004:ActivismOf the distortions in world trade indulged in by the West, the most stark are in agricultural subsidies
Nov 09, 2003:EconomyTata Motors, Pune, “do all the paint work for Mercedes and it holds the highest quality ratings for that work outside Germany”.
Sep 08, 2004:ActivismIf you marshall the Net, it’s not so hard to be a Thakkar.
May 13, 2006:Ideas For IndiaHere are some promising paths that lead away from fossil fuel dependance, towards a sustainable energy future
Dec 17, 2003:ProfileWe could be looking at some action with teeth to it...what can ‘you’ do?
Nov 28, 2003:EconomyThere is evidence of an India fever becoming a worldwide epidemic
Mar 09, 2003:EnvironmentThis confirms UN’s World’s Forest Report, 1999’s finding that India was the only developing country where forest cover was increasing
Mar 27, 2003:ActivismOur public life can be influenced by activism, the various means of communication and the objectivity of the Courts
Oct 07, 2003:ActivismIn spite of its much maligned administration and almost compulsively retailed jokes, Bihar still has surprises to deliver
Dec 04, 2004:InnovationThey showed they had a mind of their own: they wanted to start and run a bank exclusively for children.
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