Clean and safe water has been made available in a village in western Maharashtra, India, efforts are on to make this possible in other villages. Village governance is being supported, toilets are being built, local youths and women getting training in sewing and mobile phone repairs. Grampari is a rural initiative of Initiatives of Change India.

Passion for the Have Nots

Himanshu Bharat is a vibrant bundle of contained energy. Seen as he approaches, moves, interacts, gesticulates he makes one pause, reflect and wonder at his unending source of passion.

He is a young man on a mission, determined to make a difference, zeroing in on the injustices meted out to the marginalized, voiceless, and the thousands who receive the brunt of exploitative greed.

A major feature in the the Economic Times, Mumbai, April 19th, looks at the way that the German multinational engineering company Siemens has cleaned up its act after the scandal which led to the company admitting to several bribery charges and paying around $1.6 billion in fines.

So successful has been the turn-around that another engineering giant, Tata Group, is studying it closely with a view to licensing some of the processes.