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22 July

Circular economy is booming when ‘take, make, faink’ is slowing down

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Circular economy is booming when ‘take, make, faink’ is slowing down This is for the first time in the history of industrial economic development, green business ( blue economy) which looks at both biological and...

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21 July

Who is an authentic professional: responsibility of a professional in a public project

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Who is an authentic professional: responsibility of a professional in a public project intervention Recently while debating the design, location, and erection of flyover, a leading architect who had designed the new campus of...

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20 July

how to make urgent as important: Ways of Knowing, Feeling and Doing

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A paradox of modern times is that as our awareness about new knowledge is increasing, our ability to develop a feel for the problems around us is decreasing. It seems we are getting immunised by an ever expanding exposure and...

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25 June

will we forget the lessons of this disaster too?

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will we forget the lessons of this disaster too? Devastating floods in uttrakhand once again draw our attention to the persistent negligence towards lessons of such past tragedies( even if none had a scale...

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21 June

dealing with disaster: when shall we start learning from them

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Devastating floods in uttrakhand once again draw our attention to the gross negligence we commit towards preparing better to deal with such tragedies. The state administration must be complimented for evacuating more than fifty thousand people...

Derivative innovations for differently abled

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The story of Jaipur foot is quite well known. How a local artisan designed a low cost limb is a legend that has become a standard of frugality, flexibility and user friendliness world over. But when...

Social innovations for empathetic governance

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Sunday, Jun 9, 2013, 14:26 IST | Agency: DNA Anil Gupta Heirs, who have tried to transfer title of land after the death of the owner, know of the hassles involves, not to speak of the...

Summer of ideas: Engaging minds and matters

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Most students have either proceeded on summer vacation or will be having holidays in a few weeks’ time. For school children, this is time to unwind, learn and grow. For many of the college students, this...

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28 May

This is not Jugaad : a misnomer for majority of the grassroots innovations :

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Tremendous experimental ethic is evident among people while attempting local solutions. Some of the lazy intellectuals have tried to turn all frugal solutions as ‘jugaad’. A 250 USD ECG machine by GE, low cost health care...

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