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The following is an excerpt from Heinz Kühn Foundation’s primary research report, authored by Henrike Schröder, a German journalist and researcher. The original report can be accessed here: https://www.heinz-kuehn-stiftung.de/pdf/jahrb36/jahrb36_20.pdf
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I meet Meghana Srinivas at the Happiness Café in Koramangala. She lives here in Koramangala — not far from Billionaires Street, she tells me. The most expensive real estate in the city, Koramangala 3rd block, home to some of India’s richest people.
Before we go into the cafe, I notice we have to take off our shoes when we enter, like visiting a temple. Inside you sit on thin mattresses covered with colourful Indian cloths, at low tables. There is some yummy, vegan Vietnamese iced coffee with coconut milk.
Meghana grew up in Bangalore. Like most others in the city and country, she also faced two choices when she had to decide what to study in college: medicine or engineering? She decided on research instead, and was fascinated by biochemistry and cancer research to solve complex problems for humanity.
That’s why she chose to study at UC Berkeley in the USA, and interned for a pharmaceutical company for a while until she realized it wasn’t about curing illnesses. Dispirited, she left the domain and ended up working with an NGO, Teach For India, and cofounded her own nonprofit. She now became aware that her work has an ‘impact,’ and this was increasingly important to her.
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