Author Archives: Moledina

SVYM Sanitation initiative influences a start-up

Cathy is visiting India to visit organizational partners for the Lilly project. We are also exploring ways in which Global SE and the Lilly fellowship can become more synergistic. Here, Cathy describes her thoughts on a recent trip, mirroring in … Continue reading

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Intercultural Communication and Social Entrepreneurship

By Sarah Abboud When you hear the term intercultural communication, you may immediately think of communication that takes place between people of different cultures in the geographic sense. I have been participating in intercultural communication ever since I arrived in … Continue reading

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Bottom-up and Top-down approaches to development

By Kipaya Kapiga Traffic is a big problem in Bangalore. Although all four of us have had enough time to adjust it, it’s still a daily wonder that we don’t see any car or auto crashes on our way to … Continue reading

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Social Entrepreneurship, Ashoka Fellows, and Where I Fit In

By Erika Takeo Our program is called Global Social Entrepreneurship. So, naturally, I should be thinking a lot about social entrepreneurship. It seems though that the more I learn about social entrepreneurship the less I know about it. This post … Continue reading

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Reflections on youth and Indian politics

Today I went to see “Buttter and Mashed Banana”, a critically acclaimed satire play about freedom of speech and clashing ideologies in Indian politics. From 1998-2004 India was led by a right-of-center Hindu Nationalist Party called the BJP, which subsequently … Continue reading

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