The second edition of India Rural Colloquy brings together thought leaders, innovators, decision makers across People, Public, Private Sector inspiring, nudging, provoking action for Rural Transformation, supporting intergenerational mobility aspirations across human endeavours. Colloquy draws inspiration from and commemorates history’s largest mass movement, India’s “August Kranti”. The Colloquy will surface and discuss big bet ideas, mega trends, inflexions and opportunities in our shared quest of bettering our “today” and shaping our “future” on all that matters for good and happy lives.
The man asking the question was R Venkataramanan, Managing Trustee of Tata Trusts; the woman, a farmer whose income had increased tenfold to Rs 2 lakh annually through her work in the self help groups (SHGs).
Practitioners and donors in development have increasingly realised the importance of adopting a multi-intervention or convergence approach. This article looks at why it hasn’t worked in the past, and explores what can be done differently now.
For Anish Kumar and Anirban Ghose, the two encounters bordered on the epiphanic. Kumar and Tata Trusts managing trustee R Venkataramanan were touring Jharkhand when they met a middle-aged woman in Tilladih in Gumla district.
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