Here’s the second part of my interview with Dr Kiran Martin, founder of Delhi’s Asha project. One of Asha’s big success stories last year was persuading India’s banks to give loans to slum dwellers. How did it come about? Being a paediatrician, my first effort was in the area of healthcare. But I realised [...]
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“#09 Memories”
About a week ago, “#09memories” was a ‘trending’ topic on Twitter. I’ve never really done the ‘recap of the year’ thing that much in the past (as much as I do like reading other people’s), but found myself spending the best part of an evening sharing my memories and reading those of others. It seemed [...]
Posted by George Luke on December 29, 2009
http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/%e2%80%9c09-memories%e2%80%9d/
India: last week’s news
Media junkie that I am, I couldn’t spend ten days in a media-heavy country like India and not sample the local press, telly and radio. Here are a few of the stories that caught my eye while I was out there. On the day we arrived, the Hindustan Times had a story on its front [...]
Posted by George Luke on April 15, 2009
http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/india-last-week%e2%80%99s-news/
Novel-writing madness:
