The Profession of Asking
India has 50,000 institutions and perhaps fewer than 1,000 fundraisers. That is the real gap.
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Writing
Ideas for institutions that must endure
Essays on hospital leadership, university endowments and NGO fundraising in India.
From Gift to Endowment
India has learned to raise money. The next task is to learn to keep it.
6 min read
The Golden Decade Begins
Why India’s premier institutions of technology and management are about to see their finest years of fundraising.
9 min read
Great Universities Rest on Donors Who Can See the Next Hundred Years
Private wealth is shifting towards education. The institutions that read the signal early will lead.
3 min read
Sudama Didn't Go to Ask. He Went Because There Was Trust.
The relationships your institution needs most are the ones you have been meaning to tend.
4 min read
A Man of Indian Origin Managed $57 Billion for Harvard. Why Can't Our Universities Do the Same?
The question is not whether an Indian can do this. It is whether our institutions are ready.
6 min read
Why 500+ Bed Hospitals Are Becoming Dead Stocks
Large hospitals sit at 55–65% occupancy. Hub-and-spoke networks are scaling faster, at lower cost.
1 min read
Your Hospital’s Balance Sheet Is Sick
The hidden costs of operational inefficiency: most Tier-2 hospitals have a leakage problem, not a revenue problem.
2 min read
The Hardest Truth About Hospital Operations That Most Owners Don’t Realise Early Enough
Hospitals rarely collapse due to external competition. They decline quietly from the inside.
1 min read
The Future of Indian NGOs
Why reluctance to change, not lost foreign funding, is the sector's real obstacle.
3 min read
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