Great Stories of Change : Inventive Indians
Contents: Foreword. Introduction. 1. Bridges for everyone. 2. Affordable heart care. 3. Schools by design. 4. The Lucid water Guru. 5. How the mantle passed at FRLHT. 6. The people\'s daily. 7. Amazing hospital saves a life. 8. Top doctors in Delhi slum. 9. Green car to beat all others. 10. Saving the girl child. 11. The lavish zero emission home. 12. Smile you can do it too. 13. Organic uprising near Meerut. 14. Yoga\'s first family. 15. Small field, big crop. 16. All on board with TVS. 17. Ponds keep a river clean. 18. Own your power, live Wisely. 19. Rolling back the Tsunami. 20. Hawkers in battle mode. 21. \'My tongue is still there...\'. 22. National model on silicosis. 23. Bridging the learning divide. 24. For disabled, see the opportunity. 25. Hotline for the aged in Kolkata. 26. Red bee has got what it takes. 27. Tasty, fat-free jungle food. 28. Sewa brings hope in Kabul. 29. Many surprises in river rebirth. 30. The Masala Messiah. 31. Schools at brick kilns bring hope. 32. Cyril\'s lore to knows how.
"To read this book is to realise that the best "stories" in India are not necessarily what you find in most of the newspapers or even the popular magazines; and that news does not have to be mostly bad news. In a country that is not short of problems, Civil Society has managed to focus on many heartwarming stories: people\'s initiatives, the change achieved by committed individuals, unsung heroes. To be sure, the backdrop is provided by the many problems that people face in this country, but to read these stories is to realise that the solutions are not necessarily with either governments or companies; ultimately, they are with the people themselves. And they are not just the ones who emerge on the national stage and get name-recognition and soon invitations to government committees; they are out in distant fields and it is up to the story teller to go and find them.
Rita and Umesh Anand have proved one other thing: that magazine stories retold within the covers of a book are not like yesterday\'s newspaper; they get a fresh lease of life, indeed acquire lasting value. The text lifts one\'s spirits, the pictures complete the story telling...And in the telling, they might well help these unsung heroes find ways to achieve scale; for others to try me-too efforts; and thereby to achieve replication in different ways. As always, the story-teller becomes a part of the story.
My compliments to Nimby Books for a wonderful piece of work." (jacket)
