When society gives big mandates to parties and social standpoints, it also expects magnanimity and inclusiveness in the same measure. I want to list some of the reforms that are crying for implementation in the larger institutional interest of an inclusive society. For a long time, we have been trying to universalise the benefits of food security,…
What is common among Santosh Pachar, a lady farmer from Rajasthan, Paresh Panchal, a mechanic from Gujarat, Akash a tenth class student from Tamil Nadu, Shalini, a student from Patna and six other innovators from around the country? Hosted by The President of India as innovation scholar in residence along with two artists and writers…
With the exorbitant hike in UK visa fees and Brexit, globalization got its first blow. With the transition in US government, a very big question mark has been put on the future of globalized world as it evolved so far. For all the apologists of uniform world economic order, and WTO, the movement of capital…
It is well known that in many states, economic development does not always lead to educational development. Why should ranking on economic and social indicators vary so much? One reason, I have repeatedly mentioned over last two decades is that top level policy makers don’t spend enough time, not even one hour a week with…
Almost everybody has experienced one or the other examples of odd climatic event: sudden temperature rise followed by drop in winter, unseasonal rains, long dry spell or too much rain in a very short period etc. last week, everybody experienced such fluctuations much more closely. Neither our physical nor institutional infrastructure is sufficiently agile and…
I happened to meet several groups of young students and scholars in NIT and IIT’s during last week. One of the concern I have is that large number of very bright young technological and management students ( science students seem to suffer less from this problem) get easily distracted by messages and notifications on which…
You may be a writer artist, small or big investor, entrepreneur, academic, school teacher, ecologist, food technologist; agricultural, veterinary, human or microbiological scientist, engineer, fabricator, student, a vendor on the street, shop keeper, householder, translator, government servant, corporate executive, lawyer, manager of an incubator, a start-up, or just a farmer, pastoralist etc. You may just…
If we had our way, we will all live in an yesterday land, and that too not just any ‘yesterday’ but the one that we liked the most. But Sankranti/Pongal festival tells us that seasons must change and there is no season which stays forever. Thank god that it does not. Will life be any…
What could be a good mantra to welcome the new year than to insist on making relationships also learning bonds? If there are three circles or venn diagrams, learning, loving and living, I will always want to be at their intersection. How can one live without learning and can we learn without loving or vice versa? May…
There has been a deep debate in the country about the inconvenience caused to common people, unfortunate death of those elderly in queue who should have been treated better, and many others. It is acknowledged that a large number of poor people have lost jobs because those who employed them have lost orders due to…