A few days ago The Good Times reported on an initiative called “Creative for Good“. It deserves a lot of attention — not least because their media outreach in their own words are “imagined, communicated and delivered in ways that move individuals, communities and whole societies to change the way they think and act” for the betterment of […]

India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) guarantees 100 days of local infrastructure-related work every year to rural households whose adult members volunteer to perform unskilled manual labor. Reflecting both its success and neediness among rural populations, MGNREGS was accessed by 55.7 million households across India in 2010–11. If the local government institution […]