The mandarins: why do I suffer for my sanity Simone de Beauvoir, an outstanding novelist and a companion of Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a semi autobiographical novel, which evoked an eternal dilemma for an intellectual or a public person about how to be truthful. When the dilemma is a choice between defence of an ideology and…
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Challenging and rewarding innovators worldwide: A forgotten Gandhian legacy Time and again when I have the opportunity to talk to budding managers, leaders and senior policy makers of our society, I remind them of a guilt my generation suffers from. Many of us knew the problems disadvantaged people in our society faced but we learned…
Conserving vultures through a tree climber, spreading clay nest for birds The cross fertilization of ideas across the country has continued unabated, despite lack of physical exhibitions of grassroots innovations in different parts of the country. Earlier, a Rs. 5000 bamboo windmill innovation by Mehtar Hussain and Mushtaq Ahmed from Assam got transferred to Gujarat…
Are Gandhian tools of civil resistance relevant today? The recent breakthrough that Anna Hazare had with the Indian Parliament through a persistent non-violent social pressure has brought the issue of civil resistance, or protest and corruption at the centre of national attention. A large number of protesters, I feel, were agitated more by the opposition…
Grassroot Innovations: New Opportunities for Indoâ€German Cooperation? Last few years have seen the rise of several new and dynamic paradigms in innovation management, e.g. the “Bottom of the Pyramid” (BOP) or “Frugal Innovations”. These seek to motivate firms to develop affordable and goodâ€quality products for rural and/or poor customers especially in developing economies. Such ideas,…
why should centralization of arena of protest be so vital in a society which we want to be governed by decenetralised polity? why should even arena of social protest be centralised, this is not what gandhi taught us, he said we could burn pyre of bought ( not looted) foreign made clothes outside your house…
Educational Experiments for inclusion and excellence When Kesar Singh Rathr reached his first posting at Akha dungri about twenty years ago, there was no school building. He used to teach in the houses of the local community members. Many kids would come without bath or even proper clothes on. He would cut their hairs, nails…
Educational Experiments for inclusion and excellence When Kesar Singh Rathr reached his first posting at Akha dungri about twenty years ago, there was no school building. He used to teach in the houses of the local community members. Many kids would come without bath or even proper clothes on. He would cut their hairs, nails…
Innovations for inflation control: agriculture When prices of agricultural commodities increased by more than sixty per cent in the last few years, pressure on consumer prices was expected. It is alright for agricultural minister to say that to pay farmers well, society should bear the inflationary burden, but that is not a very responsible attitude towards…