Gaya to Gangtok: engaging with MP of North Eastern margins After traveling for 18 hours almost non stop, on unbelievably  smooth roads in Bihar and west Bengal, I reached Gangtok to interact with the Members of...

Scarcity of resources often makes people despondent. People learn to adjust, adapt or just succumb. But, sometimes they transcend the adversity through a creative innovation. Let me share one story in which the scarcity of water triggered a very interesting innovation in cotton. (...

Gupta anil k, 2009 Inclusive Innovations for Stimulating Sustainable and Equitable Growth in ‘THE INNOVATION FOR DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2009-2010, Strengthening Innovation for the Prosperity of the Nations, ed. AUGUSTO LOPEZ-CLAROS, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, p 300 earlier draft: Learning from Grassroots Green Innovations for...

Enterpreunership and Helping the Handicapped HI! Suvendu Roy, of Titan Industries shares his inspirational encounter with a rickshaw driver in Mumbai: Last Sunday, my wife, kid, and I had to travel to Andheri from Bandra. When I...

Could you kindly give a brief overview of how NIF, SRISTI and Honey Bee are interlinked, and the work of each body connects with the other? Honey Bee Network was the first to come about more than...

a multi stakeholder workshop on Bridging Academia – Industry Gap: A Consultation to Create Collaborative Platform between 10 am – 1.00 pm at KLMDC Conference Hall on February 3, 2010. As you are aware, www.techpedia.in has tried to map the...

Land without latches and locks:  learning from northeastern borders After crossing Brahmputra rivers, 85 farmers, artisans, students from various parts of the country reached Dhemaji to learn from local communities and creative people in Assam.  In addition, 20...

The sandals invented by Bangalore geek Prayas Abhinav help you explore the urban jungle the hi-tech way. The LEDs and the vibrator fitted in them guide you to new destinations in the city Shashwathi Bhanukumar Posted...

Listening to heart, not mind : When a movie entertains masses and moves them to ask even a simple question, it does more for re-formatting the mental hard disk, than any amount of research papers and...

Attended national innovation council first meeting today chaired by sam pitroda, shekhar kapoor shared his very irreverent approach to learning, i liked that, Dr Mashelkar was emphatic as usual about reducing the learning lags. why does...