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In this fictionalized memoir, Nagara (The Wedding Portrait) engages readers with a conversational approach, starting with his own beginning. Though dates are never specified, mentions of the Vietnam War, the Soweto uprising, the Irish Troubles, Space Invaders, and the Indonesian Reformasi movement may help contextualize the era. Through these moving vignettes, Nagara offers a powerful reminder to readers that "it's real people who make real social change movements a reality.". [Extracted from the article]

The article looks at how Web-based crowd-funding platforms allow private individuals to contribute to social change by investing small amounts of money for start-up businesses and public welfare projects. Crowd-funding examples include Kickstarter, started in 2009 for financing all kinds of creative ideas, and Barefoot Power, which solicits micro-finance loans to purchase solar-powered lamps to replace the kerosene-based lamps often used as a light source by poor families around the world.