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Rishikesha Krishnan

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New Chronicles from Central India: MP Global Investors Summit, Leadership Panel

Indore was the venue of a mega event last week, the third Madhya Pradesh Global Investors’ Summit (GIS). This was a start-studded event, with a who’s who of Indian industry sharing the stage with Prime Minister Modi and MP Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan. The general mood was positive - everyone

Making Indian Manufacturing Competitive - from IIM Indore Director's Desk

By an interesting coincidence, I spent two successive days last week attending events related to manufacturing competitiveness. The first was a panel discussion organised by CII Malwa Zone to coincide with the launch of the Prime Minister of India’s new “Make for India” campaign, and the second was a day-long

Defying the Odds: Invigorating Accounts of Dalit Entrepreneurship

Since independence, India has had a strong commitment to social justice, particularly towards making sure that the centuries of acute discrimination against those at the bottom of the caste hierarchy come to an end. Besides making untouchability illegal, reservation of seats in institutions of higher education and government jobs has

Profiling Gram Oorja and PARFI: Two Exciting Social Enterprises

In recent years, it has been heartening to see a good number of well-qualified and “successful” men and women from “middle class India” take on the challenge of national development. The social enterprise bug has bitten these professionals and they have taken on, in their own way, some of the