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To nest, to rest - January-March-2010
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Enabling the differently abled

by Sagar Balan
With a noble intent, bold vision and smart execution, APD seems well placed in aiding the physically challenged and helping them become a part of mainstream life with minimal hiccups.

Camping for health

by Aradhana Janga
"It is impossible for a mother to provide high-quality child care if she herself is poor and oppressed, illiterate and uninformed, anaemic and unhealthy, has five or six other children, lives in a slum or shanty, has neither clean water nor safe sanitation, and without health services."

This is the home that Pizzas built!

by Anu Kalpathi
The “pizza grannies” have attained iconic status in Bangalore due to their innovative fund-raising method. Anu visits the home that the energetic 70-year olds lovingly built.

The Tata Jagriti Yatra 2009 Journal: Belonging

by Anitha Pai
A series of notes from our writer Anitha Pai as she makes the historic journey through India to discover the spirit of social entrepreneurship.

Building sustainable institutions: The MYRADA Story

by Sangitha Krishnamurthi
Teaching poor people to fish also involves enabling them to get to the river. Sangitha explains the processes that MYRADA uses to build institutions.

perspectives
columns
Krupa Rajangam
What makes a place 'qualify' as heritage in the first place?
Thomas Sebastian
By the end of the next decade, the top ten in-demand jobs are going to be ones that weren’t heard of at the beginning of this century.
Preeti Mohan
The law in a modern society has always been linked with the elusive concept of freedom.
opinion
Makepeace Sitlhou
The concept (and requirement) of Sexuality Education still eludes us. Forget the masses, even sexuality educators themselves are in doubt when debating about just how much is too much.
Swati Ramanathan
Excerpts from the book "Ground Rules" by Swati Ramanathan, which gives a practitioner's perspective on challenges to implementation of land title systems in India.
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