Midnight Sounds

Its a little after midnight. Can't fall asleep so I sit outside on my balcony. The weathers actually kinda nice. Very breezy on the 11th floor. I look all round absorbing how peaceful the city seems at this time. I peep inside people's windows (the little that I can see from far away!) Nothing interesting. I then close my eyes and listen. I hear the cars whizzing by. Thankfully there's not too many cars so the honking is minimal. I can hear hindi music playing from somewhere across the street. I guess its some wedding or puja (ya even for a puja, the music of choice is Bollywood many times). AND I hear a goat from somewhere below - a goat "meehhhing"

Lists... Lists... Lists...

Forbes recently published the Top 30 social entrepreneurs. I'm not sure about the print version of this issue, but reading the articles online on Forbes.com, I really didn't understand the criteria used for selecting the 30. They are of course doing amazing work - but why those 30?

By biggest reason for wondering that is that I find it surprising that almost all of the organizations on that list have been founded by Americans (though many of them do work globally). They really didn't find any outstanding organization in one of the 100+ developing countries worthy of making it on the list? Maybe they couldn't which is fair. And I'm not suggesting that there needs to be some sort of a "quota" or "reservation" system while creating the list and make sure that at least a certain % of organization listed on it have to be founded by a native of a developing country.

I'm just curious because working in the social sector, there are definitely some organizations that come to mind that I feel should have been on there.

The article can be found here: http://www.forbes.com/impact-30/list.html