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A Primer on Linking Disaster Risk Reduction with Development Efforts

By Ananda | Published: June 10, 2010

I’m very happy to announce that the primer I wrote for the Advanced Centre for Enabling Disaster Risk Reduction is now available online. Here’s the abstract: When one surveys news reports today, mention of disasters seem to be commonplace. And, quite often, there is a lot of response to disasters. Aid agencies channel money or [...]

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You should run for office

By Ananda | Published: May 8, 2010

At least that’s what one of my former students told me at Tata-Dhan Academy’s third convocation, during which I got to dress up in a very white shirt and a long white dhoti.

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Democracy, aristocracy, plutocracy, meritocracy, and bratty students

By Ananda | Published: January 19, 2010

I started the day today [note: as with "And when the numbers go against what you have always said....,” this was written around a week ago] with my dictionary. I was trying to remember more precise definitions of things like democracy, aristocracy, plutocracy, and meritocracy because our topic of discussion for the day was “deepening [...]

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And when the numbers go against what you have always said….

By Ananda | Published: January 19, 2010

Today [note: this was actually written about a week ago, but I just got around to finishing typing it], around 400 DHANites got together to talk about poverty and our motivation to work with the poor. Our “reference” materials were a chapter from a book titled Moving Out of Poverty (one of the authors of [...]

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The (unbutchered) retreat report

By Ananda | Published: January 13, 2010

I just came back from my first DHAN Foundation retreat (which I plan to write about later) and I also got two books filled with “retreat reports” from other DHANites. The retreat reports range from extremely dull to pretty fun to almost instructional. By design, they are meant to highlight the best and worst parts [...]

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An interview with Ananda Mahto

By Ananda Mahto | Published: February 6, 2009

Every year, pretty much everyone available from DHAN Foundation and its family of “themes” gets a chance to attend the “DHAN Retreat.” The retreat takes place in different places each year. There are also different themes each year. Because of my surgery, I wasn’t able to attend this last retreat, which was somewhat unfortunate since [...]

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