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Indian Village Renamed Snapdeal.com. And It’s Not A Cheap Marketing Stunt
- peteretep 15y agoMy Dad spent much of his life involved in developing-world water supplies. The class of problems they'd come up against seem to be the prototypical "Westerner Meets World" experiences eg: local priests convincing Brahmins that they'd lose their caste if they drank from newly installed village taps, as they were standing water - the result being that they'd knock the heads off all the taps, destroying the water pressure...
- Rabbi 15y agoWas it in 1920s?
- digamber_kamat 15y agoDont spend canards. Probably your dad was a missionary.
- peteretep 15y agoWhat does any of that mean? He was a civil engineer working for DFID, then called ODA
- statictype 15y agoNitpick: The village name is "Snapdeal.com Nagar". Not just Snapdeal.com. I guess it's the difference between 'Orange' and 'Orange County'.
- digamber_kamat 15y agoNagar is a suffix just like county.
- chintan100 15y agoActually, the original name of the village used to be "Shiv Nagar" (written in brackets in hindi). So changing Shiv Nagar to Snapdeal.com Nagar is good enough i guess.
- nodata 15y ago5000 USD for 15 pumps. 333 USD/235 EUR/206 GBP per pump. That sounds reasonable. I'll put 50% of one if anyone wants to co-ordinate a few of these?
- jwn 15y agoSounds like http://www.charitywater.org/ http://www.charitywater.org/.
- adammichaelc 15y agoYour email isn't in your bio. Add it and I'll ping you. I have a few contacts in India I could put you in touch with.
- tgrisfal 15y agoIt's a little frustrating that every article I've seen on this goes with the "town renamed after corporation" headline instead of the "$5000 equipment donation gives town clean water for next 10-20 years" option. I don't know, maybe I'm expecting too much.
- hugh3 15y agoI remember the first time I looked at a map of New Mexico and saw there was a town called Truth or Consequences. It sounded like the most awesome name for an old west town ever. I was so disappointed when I found out that it was named after a 1950s radio game show.
- naba 15y agoI've had a chance to attend one of his guest talks and talk to him for a few minutes after it. He came across as a very modest and smart guy. He has graduated from Wharton, had previously launched a detergent product Dropps which was very successful. I am not surprised that he is doing something nice.