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Anchoring Change: Seventy-Five Years of Grassroots Intervention That Made a Difference
All too often, the focus of conversation in India is on our failure as a socio-economic polity. We despair about our inability to realize our full potential as a country: we find fault with our political system, the leadership, the state of our institutions, the economic model and much else. What we do not do is reflect on the micro successes and the many examples of hugely impactful interventions that have shifted the needle of society in positive directions. We do not ask the questions: what were the ingredients of these successes? Are they scalable? Are there learnings from these that could be applicable elsewhere in India, and might these learnings provide the guts for a new developmental model? Anchoring Change attempts to answer these and several other such questions, through accounts of organizations from across India, spanning the seventy-five years since independence. The idea is to revisit these examples of civic action and explore their relevance for the future of India. The book has two objectives: to shift the conversation from failures to successes; and to distill from these successes relevant design principles that might have wide relevance to create an alternative, grassroots-based, sustainable development model.
380 pages, Paperback
Published September 25, 2022
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November 26, 2022
𝘼𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 - 𝙎𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙮 𝙁𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙔𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙩 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙈𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙖 𝘿𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚
⚓AT THE STROKE OF THE midnight hour on 14 August 1947, India marked the end of British rule and faced forward with an indefinite sea of opportunities.
⚓In recent years India, impressed with its relatively high economic growth rates, it is still home to the largest number of poor people in the world; it is a society divided by class, caste, religion, language and race, and it has a long way to go to overcome it's challenges.
⚓Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. We will have equality and in social and economic life, we will have inequality. We must remove this contradiction at the earliest possible moment.
⚓In these seventy-five years since our independence, grassroots interventions have to a greater or lesser extent been driven by the interactions of the triad of the state, the market and the society. This discusses them on a very detailed yet Comprehensive approach.
📌I basically found the book more of a remainder to the impressive and impeccable things we have achieved since the independence from British Rule. It embarks and brings the attention of the reader to various systems and models that have been developed by society and the states in order to excel and progress.
📌It thoroughly discusses various systems and models and serves as a guide to aware the current generation about the achievements in the past 75 years as well. It also discusses the role of society, citizens, states, government, sectors and constitution in the development.
"A must read for all fellow learners and Curious people, in order to get aware regardless of one's personal opinion and perspectives "
⚓AT THE STROKE OF THE midnight hour on 14 August 1947, India marked the end of British rule and faced forward with an indefinite sea of opportunities.
⚓In recent years India, impressed with its relatively high economic growth rates, it is still home to the largest number of poor people in the world; it is a society divided by class, caste, religion, language and race, and it has a long way to go to overcome it's challenges.
⚓Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. We will have equality and in social and economic life, we will have inequality. We must remove this contradiction at the earliest possible moment.
⚓In these seventy-five years since our independence, grassroots interventions have to a greater or lesser extent been driven by the interactions of the triad of the state, the market and the society. This discusses them on a very detailed yet Comprehensive approach.
📌I basically found the book more of a remainder to the impressive and impeccable things we have achieved since the independence from British Rule. It embarks and brings the attention of the reader to various systems and models that have been developed by society and the states in order to excel and progress.
📌It thoroughly discusses various systems and models and serves as a guide to aware the current generation about the achievements in the past 75 years as well. It also discusses the role of society, citizens, states, government, sectors and constitution in the development.
"A must read for all fellow learners and Curious people, in order to get aware regardless of one's personal opinion and perspectives "
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