ALL FOR A CUP OF TEA All of us take a cup of tea in the morning and during the day to charge our batteries. However, seldom do we realize the pain of the tealeaf pickers. Many of us might have seen the photos of tea gardens in the films or elsewhere. But, have we…
shape of things to come: predicting future designs What kind of furniture will be designed in future? whether cycle will remain frozen in its form and features as it has been for last six to seven decades, or acquire new features and functions? will design, engineering and management schools add one more choice to an existing…
http://www.scidev.net/En/opinions/we-must-nurture-a-new-innovation-politics.html We must nurture a new innovation politics Adrian Ely and Kevin Urama 14 June 2010 | EN | ä¸Âæ–‡ The STEPS manifesto calls for support for grassroots innovation Ashden Awards Adrian Ely and Kevin Urama call for a new politics of innovation built around diversity, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. Reducing global poverty while promoting environmental sustainability…
Change of Pattern of Funding from Corpus Fund to Regular Annual Budget for National Innovation Foundation (NIF), Ahmedabad 14:17 IST The Union Cabinet today approved the change of pattern of funding from Corpus Fund to Regular Annual Budget for National Innovation Foundation (NIF), Ahmedabad. The NIF will be converted to a grant-in-aid institution under the…
Strategy to deal with Naxal Violence: CAN Gandhian methods still help? A few lessons from insurgency around the world may be helpful in looking at this problem in our own country too. Red shirt protectors may have lost out to yellow shirt people in Thailand for the time being but since the root problem has not…
Lessons from bastar: Excellence , environment, ethics, equity, education and empathy When physical, cultural and social environment of a region indicates enormous opportunities for learning and development, quality of the environment for governance becomes the pivot for future choices. In Bastar, we saw many examples of excellence, which were rooted in its natural and socio-cultural…
‘Our head is on the top, trees have head at the bottom’: lessons from Bastar-1 After walking 175 km in Narayanpur district, part of Bastar region for a week along with 35 shodh yatris, mostly young people and majority from Gujarat as always, we learned a great deal about richness of Gondi tribal communities. Be it…
just as kashmiris some times say, they have a voice independent of what their so called supporters across the borders claim, similarly tribals in bastar also have a voice, which we heard and which is not necessarily Maoists voice. Police is doing a great damage by muting this voice, by arresting innocent tribals and by suspecting every youth as a naxalite ally. I…
Inclusion through innovations: creative individuals and perceptive institutions A farmers who breeds new varieties of chillies in which pod don’t droop down but face upwards, develops mangoes grafts that taste and yield well despite little irrigation, uses biogas to run cattle milking machine and designs motorized weeder, sprayers etc., should be a familiar name in the country. But…
Inclusive growth: fund workers welfare through a new professional tax Any region which grows fast is bound to attract labour from rest of the regions but particularly economically backward regions. When these workers go back, they can potentially become the ambassador of the region which hosted them and also future consumer of the goods and services…