Stories from the grassroots | Thoughts on development | Lessons on leadership
My article in today’s Bodhi Vruksha – a supplement in Vijaya Karnataka newspaper that focuses on life, living and spirituality: Bodhi Vruksha 30 Jul 2011
The English version of the article can be found here: Swami Vivekananda and my own journey
– Balu
A lot of people keep asking me about the last one year that I have spent working in the Government as an insider. From being a person outside the system constantly interacting with it and seeking their support for ensuring human development at the grassroots, friends including myself are surprised on how my journey has brought me here. From being a angry young man in the early eighties to feeling disillusioned at the ‘trickle down effect’ that never truly happened, to working inside Government in building the capacity of people and systems at the Capacity Building Commission, I have indeed
There is so much interest amongst the younger generation in India for public policy. I have been involved in running workshops and teaching seminars across the country for more than a decade now and i find the interest only increasing. Prestigious schools like IIMs, National Law Schools and IITs too have joined this club and it augurs well to learn of the setting up of several policy schools across the country. While the quality of faculty in several of them are yet to be of the required standard, one feels happy that this growing interest is being met through formal