Now, Mrs. Nilekani On TV

It is time for change. To business television junkies, Nandan Nilekani has been a familiar face. Be it talking about his company or pitching for Indian software skills, Nilekani is almost a brand ambassador for the industry. In the next, we will see another Nilekani take the centre stage. Nilekani’s wife Rohini will host a […]

Payments for Ecosystem Services

It is clearly time for a new social contract with the farmer and the tribal, if not as a moral imperative certainly as a strategic one. Two symbols come to mind immediately when we look at India as it is instead of through the aspirational prism of an India shining or poised. One: the disenfranchised […]

Watering A Change

It’s back to the grassroots for techies who are giving up their plum jobs for a noble cause — water conservation. The story of a young engineer from NASA, who gave up his high profile job to change the lives of villagers in India in the Bollywood blockbuster ‘Swades’ was motivating. But it was on […]

Many questions for the dinner table

Some key issues and dilemmas about food that the developed countries are beginning to ponder, and which the argumentative Indian can take to heart. How do we produce food? How do we distribute it? And how do we consume it? These are questions that are increasingly understood to be at the core of sustainable economies. […]

Save The Flow – Protect nature, conserve water

The Bangalore Film Society and fellow organisations have no hammer. Still, for four days in early June, they hammered out a warning, with cinema as their tool. The purpose: to generate awareness about the vital importance of water, its destructive capacity generate awareness about the vital importance of water, its destructive capacity. View PDF

Is Water the Next Oil?

Water is more vital for human life than oil – and environmentalists, corporations, communities and governments increasingly recognize its unequal distribution around the globe could lead to severe environmental degradation and intense conflicts in the years ahead. Anyone who cares about water should observe the management of oil during the past century and not repeat […]

Kelvinator GR8! Women Awards 2007

ohini Nilekani started as a writer. She worked as a journalist for several years writing for many for leading publications such as Sunday and India Today. Her first novel, a medical thriller called STILLBORN was published by Penguin Books. She is Founder-Chairperson, Pratham Books, a non-profit publishing house set up to create high quality, low […]

Breaking their shells

IN THE northern plains of Bihar, which are so used to being part of a flood economy that the railway stations have permanent stalls for flood relief personnel, we at Arghyam are supporting a small, yet bold, initiative in the districts of Madhubani, Sahara, Supaul and Khagaria. A small, but committed group of five NGOs […]

Modern Womanhood

Modern Womanhood – Rohini Nilekani, Chairman of Argyam and Akshara Foundation, Bangalore. Social Services. View PDF