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Philanthropy in India needs to step up to address societal challenges: Rohini Nilekani

Rohini Nilekani, chairperson, Arghyam, shares five ideas on reimagining philanthropy with societal platform thinking

1 min read6 Dec 2019
Mint-lounge

Rohini Nilekani dreams of making invisible water visible

The capricious nature of groundwater has resulted in so much exploitation and overuse that we now have a consistent crisis. Presenting a roadmap for groundwater governance and information transparency using technology

8 min read10 Aug 2018
Companies

Giving Pledge is not meant to be prescriptive: Rohini Nilekani

Rohini Nilekani on why she and her husband Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani signed up for Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge initiative

9 min read5 Dec 2017
Companies

News in numbers: Nandan Nilekani, wife pledge to give 50% of wealth under ‘Giving Pledge’

In other news, egg prices have increased sharply in the last one month, with Delhi market witnessing 28% spike

2 min read20 Nov 2017
Industry

Justice (Nyaaya) made easy? Take a look

Legal portal Nyaaya has the ambitious plan to convert not just central but state laws into easily available documents which can be read and understood by anyone

3 min read14 Nov 2016
Companies

Govt policy should make it easier to give: Rohini Nilekani

Philanthropist Rohini Nilekani on how the wealthy can be persuaded to give more to charity, importance of natural resources to improve living standards, and the India Philanthropy Initiative

5 min read6 Oct 2016
Lounge

The story forward

A multi-lingual experiment is making children fall in love with books again

2 min read25 Oct 2015
Opinion

CSOs: Mirrors, not just handmaidens

When a government limits the freedom of NGOs to criticize, as seems to be happening now, it prevents them from doing what it needs them to do

4 min read15 Jun 2015
Politics

Rohini Nilekani | Want to make a difference? Then initiate it

Good governance, no matter how you define it, is about more than govt and its institutions. Its about citizens investing and engaging in transformation process

4 min read19 Mar 2015
Politics

Giving for governance

Ahead of the Dasra Philanthropy Week that starts on Thursday, two philanthropists address issues of governance

2 min read19 Mar 2015
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