Saris on Scooters How Microcredit Is Changing Village India

"Thankfully, Saris on Scooters is about microcredit sans the big time. Call it the theory of general relativity. The level of analysis should fit the story, plain and simple. An investigation of microcredit needs to be made on a micro-level." - The Mercury (Canada) July 2010 "It's a well written, inspiring read, perfect for any sustainable traveller interested in the compelling stories of other people's lives." - GAP Adventure website July 2010 "Inspiring as such stories are, they are abundant in any number of publications and on the internet. What fleshes them out into a lively full-length book are other factors, including striking accounts of Hindu and Muslim women working to avoid con-flict in the face of an active attempt to stoke it by polarized communal groups, politicians and the police, and of a stay in a model organic farm in the foothills of the Himalayas to take a two-week course on 'Gandhi, Cultures of Non-violence and Globalization.'" - Literary Review of Canada July/August issue, 2010 "These women are living examples of sustainable solutions to poverty. For decades the world has donated billons to fund megaprojects, while also inadvertently supporting corruption and oppressive regimes. This book will make us question how we help people in other societies." - Hudson-St. Lazare Gazette April 2010 The book is alive with carefully researched examplesThe strength of the book is that it bears witness to the agency gained by women in self-help groups. - Canadian Journal of Development Studies, review, April 2012 "Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos, co-recipient of the 1979 Governor Generals Award for non-fiction, visited India between 2001 and 2008. The result is this well-documented, eminently readable and uplifting book." -- Herizons, July 2011 Saris on Scooters makes a compelling read for anyone who is interested in understanding the role of Indian rural women in poverty reduction and the role of microcredit in helping them. -- Book Review Journal (India), June 15, 2013