December 1, 2025

Happiness interrupted: The nonprofit edition

Make enterprises great again.

2 min read

Many development professionals in the Northeast, such as Sonal Roshan, have heard variations of this story while working on the ground.

Anwesha Ganguly has illustrated this story.

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a black-and-white illustration of a man wearing a turban on a boat--nonprofit humour

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an illustration of a man on a boat; another man with only the back of his head visible is telling him, "Why are you wasting your time like that? I can empower you, make you an entrepreneur." The text 'Make Enterprises Great Again' appears in the lower left corner.--nonprofit humour

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a comic, where one of the characters is a man on a boat, and the other character is a man telling him why he needs to become an entrepreneur--nonprofit humour

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A comic of a man lying in a boat. His thought bubble reads, "I was happy before you came here."--nonprofit humour

Tags: Nonprofit Humour

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Sonal Roshan

Sonal Roshan currently works as coordinator with the Bosco Institute on the project ‘Youth Involve Social Entrepreneur Support’ that aims to develop grassroots organisations in the Northeast. He is also the state manager at Axom State Collective that promotes collaborative action among nonprofits and other stakeholders in Assam.