Many parents are worried that children get highly stressed at young age because of various anxieties triggered by perhaps parental and/or social expectations. But they still don’t provide enough opportunities to their children to relax by fertilizing their imagination, wander to wonder about nature, social diversity and even more importantly, so many unmet social needs…
Frederick and his wife were computer engineers in Paris working in a company earning well. One day, a question arose in their mind as to whether they could make a greater social and environmental impact than what they were doing. They left their computer job and moved to a village in bourgogne region and hired…
Last week, I shared the story of neglect but also of creative aspirations of the children and the women in Gurej valley. During 40 th shodhyatra, we also came across many more possibilities. It seems government has belatedly realised a fraud that had been going on in education sector. A lot of school teachers were…
“Should we suffer because we are peaceful, love the country and wish to contribute more and more for its development?” Asked an elderly villager while discussing the valley’s slow pace of development during 40th shodhyatra last month. Walking down from chakwali, the last village of our country on the northern tip in this region in…
Rising social expectation, the reduced ability of the state to deliver social development programmes, and increasing income disparities often trigger rise of the conservative governance structures. In many European countries, conservative government has been recently elected ( Germany is an exception) creating a worldwide fear of decline of the welfare state. Simultaneously, inclusive philosophy is…
The inclusivity of any innovation depends on the degree to which the solution is accessible, affordable, available and adaptable to disadvantaged communities. The disadvantages can arise on account of spatial, sectoral, social, skill, seasonal or temporal and structural (on account of ill designed governance system) exclusion of the people. Innovations are defined as new ways…
Rising social expectation, reduced ability of the state to deliver social development programes, and increasing income disparities often trigger rise of the conservative governance structures. In many European countries, conservative government have been recently elected ( Germnay is exception) creating a worldwide fear of decline of the welfare state. Simultaneously, inclusive philosophy is on decline.…
When burdens weigh heavy When destinations are hazy When meanings seem lost When Meandering is easy Travelling light, roads not busy Let us unpack, leave, why carry Today when India embarks upon a new definition of itself, there are many visions that collide in our mind. For many young people, this is the time to…
Disregarding the role of various global and national factors, man-made or climatic, in slowing down of economy, we can convert a crisis into an opportunity. Recently in a meeting with Niti Aayog, I pleaded that we use this occasion for large scale disruptions in our system of developmental governance which in normal times may not…
While interacting with the faculty from 15 National Institutes of Technology from all around the country and students at NIT Trichy, I reiterated simple steps through which we can make our technical education more meaningful, joyful and purposeful. To promote originality among students, it is necessary that they pool the abstracts of their projects on…