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why does india ignore indian grassroots innovators despite all the talk of common man/women and her creativity?

Indian Innovators Need Funds Brilliant inventors in India are going unrewarded monetarily for their breakthroughs breakthroughs By Anil Gupta Related Items Visit HarvardBusiness.org Posted on Conversation Starter: May 11, 2009 2:31 PM Dada Khobragade is a farmer living in a small hut without toilets in India. That itself is not unusual. But Dada Khobragade is…

educational reforms: are we barking the wrong tree

This is what MHRD, government of India,  headed by Sibal says (  http://www.education.nic.in/cd50years/r/2R/7Q/2R7Q0101.htm downloaded on June 28, 2009) Nearly half the children who entered Class I drop out before reaching Class V, and two-thirds of the children dropout before reaching Class VIII. Regional disparities also abound in rates of the dropouts. Is it by design  that the…

Key Draft recommendations for building a globalizing and resurgent India through innovative transformation (GRIT), a course taught by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam and Anil K Gupta

Draft for comments: Key Draft recommendations for building a globalizing and resurgent India through innovative transformation (GRIT), a course taught by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam and Anil K Gupta at IIMA. Several groups recommended setting up pura corporation at district level with district collector as joint CEO with a professional chief executive to run it…

first book on indigenous medicine of new world, mexico digitised

 http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2∫_new=31507 MEXICO CITY.- Returned to Mexico in 1990 by the Vatican, the De la Cruz-Badiano Codex, considered the first medical book of the new World, was digitalized and edited in a compact disc by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), to be presented in June 17th 2009, with the comments of Miguel Leon Portilla, who was…

aFTER LALGARH, WHAT?

Senior leaders of Marxist party have gone on record to say that if, pl note, if, tribal people want to talk, we will, but no talks with maoist. I have no doubt the central forces will ultimately triumph over tribal resistence . but what will be won in this case? a piece of land, yes…