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Vijay Mahajan is one of India's most accomplished and respected leading social entrepreneurs.  In 1983, he founded PRADAN, one of the first organizations in India to mobilize self-help groups within rural populations.  Since then, he has dedicated his career to fostering livelihood creation for people living in rural poverty.  He's now chairman of BASIX, a group of seven companies that provide unserved rural communities with access not only to microcredit, but also a comprehensive set of services ranging from insurance and agricultural business development to technical training.
The Journeys for Change group had the opportunity to talk to Vijay in Hyderabad, getting his insight on everything from the unromantic realities of social enterprise to his belief that everything we do must be driven by passion in order to be effective. 
This is a segment of that conversation.