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‘The spirit remains the same, the ambition is bigger’

Date : Apr 17 , 2019 | Q&A

When Safeena Husain stepped out of London School of Economics and headed to Silicon Valley to work at a start-up, little did she know how […]

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When ‘good’ becomes a career choice

Date : Mar 18 , 2019 | Alumni

ILSS alumnus Ashutosh Tyagi, who now heads Social Finance, India, writes about the influences, motivations and inspirations that have shaped his career choices and led […]

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Let’s give children a voice in education

Date : Mar 7 , 2019 | Opinion

Twenty-seven years ago, Shaheen Mistri set up Akanksha Foundation as a response to the deep inequity she saw in the low-income communities of Mumbai. She […]

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‘Doing good is a collective responsibility’

Date : Feb 13 , 2019 | Q&A

Anshu Gupta has a rather disturbing metaphor to describe the general apathy towards ‘other’ India, the India that is in distress and forgotten by the […]

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‘Doing good is for one’s own satisfaction’

Date : Feb 12 , 2019 | Alumni

‘Trying to make a sense of this world’ is how Unny Radhakrishnan likes to describe his almost constant state of being. The January 2018 cohort […]

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A well-delineated canvas of the social sector

Date : Feb 6 , 2019 | Alumni

Suki Iyer, who attended the inaugural ILSS Leadership Program in January 2018, writes about the insights and perspectives—expected as well as unexpected—that made the experience […]

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Learning the three Ps of social change

Date : Jan 16 , 2019 | Alumni

A little over two years ago, Sanjay Mehta left a successful career in the financial services industry with the intention of using his knowledge to […]

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The changemaker’s guide to finding happiness

Date : Jan 15 , 2019 | Opinion

Troubled by the dystopian realities of life around him, Srikanth Viswanathan traded in a successful career in banking for a life of purpose in the […]

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Desperately seeking purpose

Date : Jan 15 , 2019 | Alumni

Chandru Chawla writes about the eye-opening nine days he spent as a part of the December 2018 cohort of the ILSS Leadership Program.   When someone […]

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