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An Art Event Incorporates Itself in the Spaces of New Delhi

By JYOTI PANDE LAVAKARE

 FEBRUARY 25, 2014 4:27 AM February 25, 2014 4:27 am

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An art installation by Mai-thu Perrret at an exhibition of Insert2014 in New Delhi on Feb. 22.  CreditJyoti Pande Lavakare

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NEW DELHI — On a bright, crisp February afternoon, I hadn’t exactly planned to sit in a hall full of strangers listening to intense conversations on death and dying — and in the process, becoming part of a discursive installation by a German artist in India’s capital city.

But the distinctive yellow fliers across the city advertising Insert2014, a monthlong art event, had piqued my curiosity. “Last Minute Exercise,” performed by the Berlin artist Hannah Hurtzig as one of Insert2014’s installations, pulled me right in as volunteers from the audience and specialists in biology, medicine, forensics, anthropology, law, journalism and religious studies talked about the different aspects of death.

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India’s Hidden Health Care Labor Force

By JYOTI PANDE LAVAKARE

 NOVEMBER 29, 2012 4:24 AM November 29, 2012 4:24 am

Courtesy of Zeena Johar/SughavazhvuA clinic in Kavarapattu, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, run by Sughavazhvu, an organization which provides health care in rural areas.

STARTUP INK

Entrepreneurs and new ideas, made in India.

As India grapples with the daunting challenge of providing health care to the millions who can’t afford or access it, a growing number of “affordable health care” entrepreneurs are focused on developing new solutions for the rural and remote parts of the country.

One such initiative is gaining steam in Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu, where IKP Center for Technologies in Public Health has partnered with a local nonprofit, Sughavazhvu Healthcare, to set up a network of well-equipped health centers that provide a broad range of health care services.

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What Is eBay’s Omidyar Doing on Delhi’s MedTech Row?

By JYOTI PANDE LAVAKARE

 NOVEMBER 27, 2012 6:47 AM November 27, 2012 6:47 am

Tony Cenicola/The New York TimesPierre Omidyar, co-founder of the Omidyar Network and the founder of eBay, in 2006.

Pierre Omidyar is best known as the founder of the online auction company e-Bay, which he grew from an “odd little Web site” to one of Web commerce’s biggest and longest-lasting success stories.

But his philanthropic investment firm, called the Omidyar Network — which invests money in for-profit start-ups that have a social impact as well as makes grants to non-profits — has also been very active in India.

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In Delhi, a ‘Sand Hill Road’ for Cheap Health Care

By JYOTI PANDE LAVAKARE

 NOVEMBER 26, 2012 3:17 AM November 26, 2012 3:17 am

You’ve probably heard of Sand Hill Road, home to Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists, who changed the way the tech industry did business. You probably haven’t heard of New Delhi’s MedTech Row, but the innovators and entrepreneurs who work here are no less ambitious in attempting to transform the health care industry.

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Under Pressure, India’s Entrepreneurs Look for Help From Unusual Corner

By JYOTI PANDE LAVAKARE

 OCTOBER 3, 2012 6:45 AM October 3, 2012 6:45 am

Courtesy of TiEconPramod Bhasin, chairperson, organizing committee of The Indus Entrepreneurs Conference (TiEcon) Delhi 2012  and vice chairman of Genpact at a session during the conference on Sept. 28, 2012.

Despite its bright minds and entrepreneurial spirit, India famously has not  been able to produce global technology start-ups on the scale of a Google, Apple or Facebook, thanks in large part to the country’s challenging business environment.

Now Indian entrepreneurs are pushing for an unexpected solution to the problem: government involvement. India’s start-up industry, which has historically shunned government oversight, and thrived without it, is now asking the government for support, in the form of a national policy on entrepreneurs.