PIET - MCA (SEM – 3)

My Review on,

Guided by Amisha Pathak & Hemi Dave

Prepared by Indramani Yadav (ID – 160511201757)
 About Author
 Rashmi Bansal is a writer, entrepreneur and
youth expert. She is the author of two
bestselling books on entrepreneurship. 
  ‘Stay Hungry Stay Foolish’ features the stories
of 25 MBAs who left lucrative jobs to follow
the rough road of entrepreneurship. 
 Rashmi’s second book, ‘Connect the
Dots’ focuses on non-MBA entrepreneurs.
 She is motivational speaker and mentor to the
students and young entrepreneurs.
 She is an economics graduate from Sophia
College, Mumbai and an MBA from IIM
Ahmedabad.
About book
This book contains inspiring story of 20 social
entrepreneurs who took up a social cause and made a
business out of it.
And they done it by using new ways to solve the old
problems.
Their motive is not to earn money, but to make a
difference in the lives of people around them.
Contents
This book is divided in 3 chapters,

RAINMAKERS

CHANGEMAKERS

THE SPIRITUAL
CAPITALISTS
 Rainmakers
• Social enterprises which generates
revenue but where profit is not the
primary motive.
• This is A new model of doing good,
not mere charity.
Bindeshwar Pathak
• He was born in Rampur Baghel village in
Bihar.
• He conceptualized to realize Mahatma
Gandhi’s dream of a “Clean India” and his
struggle to remove the caste system in
1960s. 
• "Sulabh International" who revolutionized
the sanitary situation in India.
Anand Kumar
• Anand Kumar is an Indian mathematician and a
columnist for various national and international
mathematical journals and magazines.
• He is best known for his Super 30 programme,
which he started in Patna, Bihar in 2002.
• And, he selects only those students who are
economically backward.
• Then he trains them for IIT-JEE, the entrance
examination for the Indian Institutes of Technology
(IITs).
• By 2011, 236 students out of 270 had made it to
IITs.
• When Discovery Channel heard about him, they
decide to create a documentary about his life and
work.
 Changemakers
Those who can’t accept what is wrong in Society
and Make every possible step to change the way of
functioning of society.
Arvind Kejriwal
Kejriwal joined the Indian Revenue Service in 1995.In February 2006, he
voluntarily resigned from the IRS as Joint Commissioner in IT
Department.

After voluntary resignation from job, he founded change, a Delhi based

citizen’s movement which works on ensuring a just, transparent and
accountable governance.

In December 2006, Kejriwal along with Manish Sisodia and Abhinandan
Sekhri started Public Cause Research Foundation, which works for
promoting better local self governance and RTI related campaigns.
 Shaheen Mistri
In 1971 she was born in Bombay.
As a student, Shaheen Mistri got her friends to
volunteer their time teaching kid from the
slums. That small initiative with 15 children in a
single borrowed classroom.
Now onwards 3500 children in 58 center and 6
schools.
“Teach for India ” will adhere to a few of the
core principles of ‘Teach for America’.
 The Spiritual Capitalists
The ideal of services may be old fashioned.
But there are individuals who still believe to live by it.
Because they believe purity of purpose and selflessness of
spirit can transcend every limitation.
Vinayak Lohani
He was born in 1978.
His father was IAS in Madhya Pradesh.
After graduating from IIM Calcutta, He turned his back
on corporate India to do something of service to humanity
"Parivaar Ashram" - a residential facility for orphans,
homeless children and children of Prostitutes.
Inspired by spiritual and humanistic ideals of Sri
Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda, decided to devote
his entire life for serving ‘Divine in Man’ as taught by
Swami Vivekananda.
 My Conclusion after Reading this Book

It is a good book but lengthy.

Whatever the problem, never lose hope & faith in

yourself.

A Single person can change the whole society.

If something wrong is happening don’t Ignore it, Step

forward and Speak up against it.