great MFI working in Calcutta, helping the urban slums, lift them out of poverty... 100% women borrowers.

Quoted: Poverty and inequality mutually reinforce and breed the degeneration of a society. The world's largest democratic republic faces a long and demanding struggle to eradicate ...

wow, i just found this little NGO, and it's pretty cool what they're doing! i'm going to try and do this next summer, after I graduate...i'll be traveling to India anyway, might as make this part of my trip!

Quoted: World Camp For Kids is a non profit organization of college volunteers that work to help poverty stricken children around the world in places like India, Ahemdabad, Malawi, Botswana and Zambia, South Africa

this is good i suppose, but what about the millions of people in our own country that need aid and attention...who's looking after them?

Quoted: India PM Manmohan Singh says the country will invest heavily in development projects in Africa to bolster economies ties.

interesting

Quoted: The world beckons, but the biggest market for Indian designers is at home

you know how Hindu gods and goddesses have multiple heads and arms...there must be some biological, scientific explanations behind why people started imagining Hindu deities in that way...i wonder if births similar to this used to take place in ancient times that led people to such imaginations, but based on actual life occurrences that normal people couldn't explain back in those days. Remember earlier in the year about the little girl in South India who was born with four arms?

Quoted: SAINI SUNPURA, India (AP) -- A baby with two faces was born in a northern Indian village, where she is doing well and is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess, her father said Tuesday.

oh the complex perils of an emerging economic power...walking on egg shells.

Quoted: India’s approach to China — one part caution, one part competition, with a dash of mimicry sprinkled in — has drawn criticism from those who say it is “overcautious.”

Quoted: Doctors sometimes accept gifts and cash to push drugmakers' products irrespective of patients' needs. Activists want New Delhi to step in.

Quoted: Jaguar and Land Rover, the two money-losing brands that Tata Motors is acquiring from Ford, will test management like never before.

Happy Holi! Okay, so is it weird that Holi and Easter fall on the same weekend? Is this a coincidence or does this always happen, hmmm.

Quoted: A selection of the most striking images from around the world on 21 March 2008.