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3 women, their bindis and the start of a revolution

Ashok Alexander • TED Talks India: Nayi Baat

Entrepreneur and author Ashok Alexander details his storied life, recounting how he helped ignite a public health revolution that rippled across 45,000 villages in India -- and how it all started with a map, three women and their bindis.

Entrepreneur and author Ashok Alexander details his storied life, recounting how he helped ignite a public health revolution that rippled across 45,000 villages in India -- and how it all started with a map, three women and their bindis.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference.

About the speaker

Ashok Alexander

Ashok Alexander

Ashok Alexander is an entrepreneur and author with impressive community organization projects to his name such as Avahan, the world’s largest ever private HIV prevention program, created in partnership with marginalized sex workers in India. He heads the Antara Foundation, a non-profit start-up that he established to achieve public health delivery, especially in maternal care, at scale.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference.