There is a section of entrepreneurs that are all around us, but are rarely recognized as ‘entrepreneurs’. We’re talking about nano-entrepreneurs. A nano-entrepreneur , by definition, is a person who runs a business, employing 1-2 people, and dealing with a limited amount of capital and scale. They require little overhead, and thereby, little in the form of initial investment as well.  This definition can include a wide variety of workers in India: from people who run petty sh

The idea of ‘social entrepreneurship’ has been gaining a lot of momentum lately, especially with the ever-increasing focus on self-reliance within the country. This is fueled by India’s long standing tradition of social enterprises, starting from Amul India’s establishment in 1950 as a milk co-operative that lifted thousands of dairy farmers from poverty . While Amul was not established as a social enterprise, it’s a promising and exceedingly famous example of one: after all,

Unarguably, people with disabilities have experienced more prejudice and discrimination than any other group in history. They face situations ranging from minor embarrassment & inconvenience to relegation of a life of limited experience and reduced social opportunity & civil rights . Moreover, the disability experience resulting from the interaction of health conditions, personal factors, and environmental factors varies greatly across disabilities. For instance, women with d