It is very encouraging to see an upsurge of interest among various classes of consumers about organically grown food products. However, lest this interest evaporates soon, it might be useful to understand little more deeply the way organic agriculture movement has emerged in different parts of the world and how we could strengthen it in our…
Anjani Mashelkar, Dr R A Mashelkar´s mother brought him up by facing all the odds that a poor widowed uneducated mother, moving to Mumbai with her only child, a six year old boy, would face. And this she did with courage and dignity. She was all along concerned about the poor old people and always…
mail from arinjay, needs no comment, in the context of iit admissions arinjaykr@gmail.com Respected Sir, I know a boy, who has very village Back ground Cracked IIT JEE exam. in 2000, he took admission in ISM Dhanbad, because it is near, and cost of living is low. In final year he was selected in an software company.…
posted on my fb IIT admission: some posers to young iitians: a) am i right in saying that if we allow school board exams numbers to be added, major advantage will be to urban and elite school students no matter which board? b) is it true that rural schools score lower marks even if the…
Building institutions for collective governance: horizontalization of society There is a crisis in the country at all levels. Most institutions, elite or otherwise seem to be becoming more centralised, impervious to the feedback from below, lacking horizontal and vertical accountability and are also getting alienated from common interest. Why is such a spectacle being…
Returning from a very inspiring visit to suruchi yantra vidyalaya and sampoornav kranti vidyalaya vedchi. Suruchi has more than 40 kinds of hand tools for workers for improving their productivity. Mohannbhai parikh had set up this centre for improving the skills of blacksmiths, and also their tools and furnaces for making implements for farming fifty…
Interview for WISR book 31st May 2012 Professor Anil K Gupta Professor Gupta has been a professor in the Centre for Management in Agriculture at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, since 1981. He is the founder of the Honey Bee Network, a fellow of WAAS, and the Executive Vice Chair of the National Innovation Foundation.…
online compilation of lessons learned from students of earlier batches of CINE course( creativity, innovation, knowledge network, entrepreneurship) http://pageflip-flap.com/read?r=ayoYb6PCUakB2NKXo#/cover it is a work in progress, there are questions given in the end to which readers can send their response at cinecourse@iimahd.ernet.in, best answer will get an invite to attend one of my classes here and spend a…
social needs which we need to address but are not able to address: will list them here briefly: a) online open source as well as IP protected collaborative design platform with stakes of those who contribute b) multi-language multimedia (MLMM) open source database for educational lessons for school children( to overcome asymmetry between privileged and…
Service to strangers Sanjay and Tula, an engineer and a computer professional, got together several years ago to bring about a small change in the world through Vishwagram, Yuvagram and Karunagram initiatives. They decided not to seek any funds from private or public sources, national or international agencies. Their belief was simple, if they are…