A place where almost every house in rural areas tends to be different in colourand architecture, diversity is deeply embedded in culture. One of the shodhyatris was too tired yesterday after a long walk in summer. Chetan, the coordinator of the yatra requested a mobyke riding youth to please stop and consider giving him a drop at night…
Last week, I looked at the problems that country is currently facing due to drought and the challenges, which are ahead of us once it rains. I was reflecting on the reasons responsible for so much collective neglect. It doesn’t matter which political party in power, the apathy for long-term drought mitigation persists. The…
More than a dozen states are suffering from drought including Gujarat. What one hears is that since good rains are expected, it is really a short term miserly and after a few weeks everything will be ok. Will it? What will happen to the people whose savings of last five or more years have been…
When so many non-issues have occupied the mind of the youth, to plead for sensitivity to what appear to be real issues may be a vain hope. But, symbols matter. Despite many statements criticizing the decision to move cricket matches out of Mumbai because of water scarcity, it did focus attention of the urban middle…
I am just returning form talks meeting of alumni of all the IIMS viz., IIMIMPACT held at Singapore. One of the question most of the alumni asked was ”how can they join the Honey Bee Network (HBN), how can they contribute to the inclusive innovation ecosystem, what is the role that an expert, who is otherwise very busy can play…
Every time, there is a disaster, natural or manmade, we ask ourselves whether we have learned any lesson, whether casualty/injury could be minimized, how long it took for adequate relief to reach, minutes, hours, or days? Have standard operating procedures been developed for flyovers, bridges, and other heavy construction in crowded places? Where do I…
Shall we talk about water in every home? Several parts of the southern and western country are going through a severe water crisis due to repeated failure of rains. The water shortage is felt not kust rural areas but also in poorer parts of cities as well.…
A fitting homage to Babasaheb Ambedkar will be a fundamental transition from entitlement based approach to an entrepreneurial system to empower and emancipate the Dalit community. Recently, some chambers of commerce dedicated to Dalit entrepreneurs have come up. Yet the dominant discourse in the country is to give them…
harnessing youth for nation building: In a pluralistic, democratic and polycentric society, it is natural that building consensus will not be easy around a minimum agreed plan for mobilising youth for nation building. However, I want to try and propose an agenda for debate and modification so that a non-controversial pathway to progress…