India, July 29 -- Legal guidance before a dispute becomes a crisis. Retired corporate laptops repurposed for learning and work. Entrepreneurial ecosystems built beyond India's largest cities. Better mathematics inside government classrooms. Stronger local businesses creating meaningful jobs closer to home.

These ideas may seem unrelated. They begin, however, with a common question: what would it take to make opportunity less dependent on geography, income and circumstance?

A growing number of Indian entrepreneurs are choosing to work on these barriers directly. They are asking how legal support can reach people earlier, how learning can work better inside existing classrooms, and how jobs and enterprise can grow beyond India's largest c...