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The Ramon Magsaysay Awards

Presenting the awardees of the 2005 Ramon Magsaysay Awards, given away on Monday.From left to right:Jon Ungphakorn of Thailand for government service, Teten Masduki of Indonesia for public service,...

Ravish Kumar receives 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award

The Indian media is in a state of "crisis" which is not accidental or random, but systemic and structural, prominent Indian journalist Ravish Kumar said in Manila on Monday as he received the...

India's Sonam Wangchuk, Bharat Vatwani win Ramon Magsaysay award

IMAGE: Bharat Vatwani, left, and Sonam Wangchuk. Two Indians Bharat Vatwani and Sonam Wangchuk are among the winners of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award, regarded as the Asian version of the...

Image: Winners of Ramon Magsaysay 2009 Award

The winners of the Ramon Magsaysay 2009 Award applaud during the awarding ceremony at the Cultural Centre of the Philippines in Manila on August 31. (From Left to Right): Krisana Kraisintu of...

Historic first: Indian NGO 'Educate Girls' wins Magsaysay award

'Educate Girls' was founded in 2007 by Safeena Husain, a graduate of the London School of Economics, then working in San Francisco, who decided to return home to India to take on the challenge of...

A business model that won an award and gave 'life' to the poor

As an NGO, IVDP has facilitated loans totalling Rs 2,406 crore.It was in 1979 that Kolandei Francis, this year's Ramon Magsaysay award winner started Integrated Village Development Programme to...

'Faster growth doesn't automatically ensure jobs'

Deep Joshi retired from the rural development NGO Professional Assistance for Development Action two years ago, but it took him nearly a month to find time for Lunch with BS. That wasn't because he...

The many good things that Magsayay winner Anshu Gupta does at Goonj

Anshu Gupta, founder of 'Goonj' and co-winner of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award, has reinterpreted Gandhi, taking the philosophy forward to a core challenge of our times, the growing gap between...

Getting nostalgic about Winona Ryder and Sharmila Tagore!

Old songs, retro fashion, 1980s pop culture, childhood icons and sharing space with Kundan Shah on paper, the theme of Sukanya Verma's super-filmi week was consistently nostalgic.   Monday...