Budget for unleashing creative potential of India Railway budget, regardless of what anyone else thinks, is a progressive budget for women, elderly, physically challenged, poor who cannot afford to reserve seats, and for the environment and also for those who want to see India clean and orderly. I welcome the fund for promoting start-ups for…
No doubt every country needs to reflect from time to time on certain core values which almost define its character. But to expect consensus on such values is to mock at its evolving culture, it’s dynamism and its optimism. After all, if our current form of beliefs and likings or disliking fits the environment perfectly,…
Footpath to FIFA: nail, auto part and stone art More than fifteen years ago, a part time sports teacher in a school wrote to me from Indore wanted support for his innovation. He had been a maverick tinkerer. Despite having a…
Amazingly creative children in the land of rising Sun: Arunachal Pradesh Dora James and Tanya Taring, two class six children did not take too long to answer when asked questions about unmet local social needs. Farmer innovators, school teachers, professionals, engineers, students, professors etc., had been debating about several problems noticed in Tajing village as…
A colonial legacy has been continued for over six decades and it seems will continue for some more time unless the NDA government decides to redefine what constitutes work. There could not be a bigger tragedy to consider more than 250 million…
When the whole world looking at Indian renaissance as a sign of hope for pulling the global economy out of recession, the policy ambivalence is difficult to understand. In the year about to pass, several initiatives took shape. But a very few could get concretized. One good example is that of BIRAC [Biotechnology Industry Research…
Designing an empathetic start-up ecosystem needs an administrative culture that trusts young people and builds upon their creative ideas. It has to be flexible enough to adapt rules and regulations to match their aspirations without violating ethical norms of transparency and social accountability. Let me explain. There will always be some people who will not…
The two sisters Pavithra and Elakkiya from Tamil Nadu wanted to help their elderly neighbour and created a special handloom, replacing the pedal with a motor and gearbox. “Our innovation will help those who are disabled to be self-employed and independent,” says the elder one, Pavithra
India has rightly embarked upon a very vibrant and supportive plan for encouraging startup enterprises to generate jobs and achieve socio economic growth. However, our analytic lenses are still biased towards IT based enterprises. Not that these are not important, but for them a reasonably robust ecosystem already exists. It is the manufacturing technology as…
Diva Sharma from Delhi has created an alert for injured or sick animals to identify the most serious case of injury or sickness among all other ailing animals so that can get immediate attention from the veterinary doctor . An animal lover, Diva Sharma has developed an application, which records the respiratory rate, temperature, pulse…