Global inclusive development challenges- meeting the unmet needs II There are problems on which several foundations have thrown billions of dollars but they still remain intractable. Last week I shared several such challenges with examples of some simple extremely affordable solutions but asking for more. Throwing more money doesn’t always help in generating more designs?…
A kurta without a stitch: 39th Shodhyatra Imagine wearing a kurta in which there is no stitch, it would be difficult for us to think of it. But, a weaver Karna Mehr had actually woven a kurta as a cylindrical cloth. Another weaver Chukmani Mehr had woven poetry of Shri Gangadhar Mehr in the Barpali…
Odisha Shodhyatra: Pervasive Poetry, widespread experiments, healthy children There could not have been better start of second round of shodhyatras around the country. While waking from Baripali to Narsinghnath, Bargarh district, we met very vibrant, warm and curious communities-always willing to learn and ever keen to share. When did we find a poet in…
Making Indo-African cooperation a two way street Having just returned from 39th shodhyatra in western Odisha, I can say that if we find In AFRICA even ten percent of the innovations and unique traditional knowledge that we discovered in this walk, India will learn a lot. Those who are not convinced should read a book, Africa…
Idea, i.e., inclusive, peaceful India In a diverse civilizational society, it is inevitable that one would find multiple perspectives on the concept of nationhood. To expect uniformity, would be to kill the source of sustainability: that is diversity. The real tension begins when we start measuring and monitoring the boundary of the diversity. How…
Farmers’ Protests: time for hard questions At the outset, I fully share the grief of families which lost their earning members during recent firing or because of suicides. But I must also state that just because industry has not paid back a lot of dues, therefor farmers should also not pay back, is a very…
In a diverse civilizational society, it is inevitable that one would find multiple perspectives on the concept of nationhood. To expect uniformity, would be to kill the source of sustainability: that is diversity. The real tension begins when we start measuring and monitoring the boundary of the diversity. How much latitude different groups should have…
When society gives big mandates to parties and social standpoints, it also expects magnanimity and inclusiveness in the same measure. I want to list some of the reforms that are crying for implementation in the larger institutional interest of an inclusive society. For a long time, we have been trying to universalise the benefits of food security,…
What is common among Santosh Pachar, a lady farmer from Rajasthan, Paresh Panchal, a mechanic from Gujarat, Akash a tenth class student from Tamil Nadu, Shalini, a student from Patna and six other innovators from around the country? Hosted by The President of India as innovation scholar in residence along with two artists and writers…
With the exorbitant hike in UK visa fees and Brexit, globalization got its first blow. With the transition in US government, a very big question mark has been put on the future of globalized world as it evolved so far. For all the apologists of uniform world economic order, and WTO, the movement of capital…