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Meet the FIN Off-site Interns: Parag Samant
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Meet the FIN Off-site Interns: Parag Samant

finideasadm
November 2, 2019

Meet our intern, Parag from Mumbai. He introduces himself in this post! Hello! This is Parag Samant. I was born and brought up in Borivali, Mumbai. I am pursuing my Bachelor of Technology degree in Civil Engineering from Shree L R Tiwari College of Engineering. Till the 10th standard, I…

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FIN Summer interns in Kameswaram – Sowmiya and Esther!
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FIN Summer interns in Kameswaram – Sowmiya and Esther!

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October 5, 2019

These young girls are pursuing Masters in Social Work from Madras School of Social Work, Chennai. They worked on some interesting projects this summer, focussing on the fishermen community women in the village. We met them in Chennai, to get to know them better. Shanmugarajan interviewed them and this is…

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FIN Musings: What Mother India told me over our morning coffee…
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FIN Musings: What Mother India told me over our morning coffee…

finideasadm
August 22, 2019

Feels so good – to be – 72 years – independent! But still, feel tied by – poverty, pollution, corruption, intolerance, unnecessary conflict, free-riding, injustice, inequity, garbage – Apathy, You got to leave now, Action! Come on in- Help me – get truly free. I need you, my sisters, my…

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FIN for Sustainable Future: Post-election Reflections
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FIN for Sustainable Future: Post-election Reflections

finideasadm
June 3, 2019

The great Indian election has now ended and the people have given their verdict. FIN joins the rest of India in congratulating Mr. Narendra Modi and his party, the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), on getting re-elected and holding the reins of power for another five years. So what can we…

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A new Finnie’s plunge into Kameswaram
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A new Finnie’s plunge into Kameswaram

finideasadm
April 7, 2019

Hello everyone, I am Anurag, a new member in the FIN group. I live in the capital city of India, New Delhi. One of the cities with fastest rate of urbanization paralleled with a low urban growth. My daily bus travel between laboratory to home over the past 4 years…

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FIN wishes you all a wonderful women’s day!
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FIN wishes you all a wonderful women’s day!

finideasadm
March 12, 2019

As we dream and work towards improving the lives of girls and women at Kameshwaram, let me share with you all a little story that I wrote many years back for Joanna. (Thank you!). There was this special girl in Kameshwaram, who was extremely physically challenged and nearly blind. Her…

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A Finnie request: Christopher, Won’t you be my new Valentine?
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A Finnie request: Christopher, Won’t you be my new Valentine?

finideasadm
February 4, 2019

I was at this conference, and I caught sight of Prof. Carl Pray, internationally renowned for his work on agriculture in developing countries including India. Though I do not share his enthusiasm for genetically modified plant varieties or newer biotech techniques like Crispr – his views are based on rigorous…

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Letter from Ghana! by Maria Tomai

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January 21, 2019

St. Nicholas Preparatory School, Tema, Ghana 11/05/2018 Dear Prof. Ramani, Today I had the chance to spend one more amazing day at St. Nicholas Preparatory School in Tema. During my first visit there, a couple of weeks ago, I met the students and the staff, they showed me around the…

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The repeating El Niño in Peru : What it can teach us for India
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The repeating El Niño in Peru : What it can teach us for India

finideasadm
January 21, 2019

Blog by: by Jacqueline Salguero Huaman At the end of last year, I was discussing the main objective of FIN for 2019, namely building climate resilience, with Jacqueline Salguero Huaman, from Peru. “Community engagement is everything” she said, “This kind of stuff is going to keep happening, and which government…

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How we do research in FIN India – A personal story from Sueli Kyomi Brodin !
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How we do research in FIN India – A personal story from Sueli Kyomi Brodin !

finideasadm
January 20, 2019

May, 2017 “I have an assignment for you!” Prof. Shyama V. Ramani of UNU-MERIT said. “You are going to visit a typical Indian village – a representative village in a developing country. Immerse yourself. Observe carefully. At the end of your visit, tell me your opinion on why the state…

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