Author: anilg

a Triibute to Mandela’s legacy

From Madiba to Mabena: A tribute to Mandela Recently I happened to visit Pretoria for a conference on discourse on Innovations from Below. There were various viewpoints presented in the conference at UNISA [University of South Africa], a 140 year old Open University. Nelson Mandela was an alumni of this university. A large number of…

milk as prevention of viral diseases like TMV, HIV andTthe Economists says so, so trust it at least now. article in honey bee in 1992 was not good enough

when we published articles on milk as a means of controlling viral disease, Indian scientists as usual ignored the evidence, now that The Economist has published news about mother’s milk being effective in hiv prevention, hopefully planners and science leaders will wake up, Ah! colonised minds, we missed two decades of possible comparative advantage incidentally,…

Can the mind of bureaucracy be reformatted?

Can the mind of bureaucracy be reformatted? Recently while addressing the probationers who have just entered the civil service, I was very impressed with many ideas that they generated on the spot for redesigning services, sectors, and social context of various products we use. I have always realized that young people when they enter the…

32nd ShodhYatra Punjab, 28th December, 2013 to 2nd January, 2014, inquiries welcome at shodhyatra@sristi.org or sristi100@gmail.com

32nd Shodh Yatra Punjab,28th December, 2013 to 2nd January, 2014 we pay tribute to the valiant efforts of Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal who mobilized local communities to clean the Kali bein river when state and the legal systems proved inadequate in the matter The next Shodh Yatra will bepursued in JalandharDistrict, Punjab, from 28th December…