the suggestion that Railways should raise 25 per cent fare to meet the cost of modernisation needs rethinking. People should ask whether the committee considered the role of a) reducing procurement cost, b) did it look...

Rebuilding institutions of higher learning: expansion, inclusion and excellence In the recent Indian Science Congress, Prime Minister bemoaned the fact that China had overtaken India on various indicators of performance in higher education.  It is ironic...

Civilizational crosscurrents of learning across the borders Recent visit to China once again convinced  me about the enormous potential that exists for changing the course of global development by synergising Indo-china cooperation for the larger social...

Feeding two and half kg of grains to the birds standing under the sun: modern jurisprudence plays far more stress on punishment and we believe that it will act as a deterrence for future offenders.But many traditional communities followed a different logic. They believed perhaps that reforming an offender...

Techpedia.in (   www.techpedia.in ): an update  Techpedia, an initiative at SRISTI ( a  NGO, sristi.org ) aims at putting the problems of micro, small and medium enterprises, informal sector, grassroots innovators and other social sectors on...

Sattvik: Food for thought, policy and action The action research on exploring market based mediation for generating opportunities for knowledge and resource rich but economically disadvantaged people has generated several new alternatives.   We realized that women...

Social criticism as a trigger for innovation The democratic society can measure its success in decentralizing and opening up the decision making processes by the extent to which it invites and welcomes open social criticism.  Unfortunately, the...

Promoting innovations, social inclusion and industrial relevance in technical education A review of over 100,000 projects done by 350,000 students from 500 institutions at techpedia.in, an imitative of SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies...