More than a dozen states are suffering from drought including Gujarat. What one hears is that since good rains are expected, it is really a short term miserly and after a few weeks everything will be ok. Will it? What will happen to the people whose savings of last five or more years have been…
When so many non-issues have occupied the mind of the youth, to plead for sensitivity to what appear to be real issues may be a vain hope. But, symbols matter. Despite many statements criticizing the decision to move cricket matches out of Mumbai because of water scarcity, it did focus attention of the urban middle…
I am just returning form talks meeting of alumni of all the IIMS viz., IIMIMPACT held at Singapore. One of the question most of the alumni asked was ”how can they join the Honey Bee Network (HBN), how can they contribute to the inclusive innovation ecosystem, what is the role that an expert, who is otherwise very busy can play…
Every time, there is a disaster, natural or manmade, we ask ourselves whether we have learned any lesson, whether casualty/injury could be minimized, how long it took for adequate relief to reach, minutes, hours, or days? Have standard operating procedures been developed for flyovers, bridges, and other heavy construction in crowded places? Where do I…
Shall we talk about water in every home? Several parts of the southern and western country are going through a severe water crisis due to repeated failure of rains. The water shortage is felt not kust rural areas but also in poorer parts of cities as well.…
A fitting homage to Babasaheb Ambedkar will be a fundamental transition from entitlement based approach to an entrepreneurial system to empower and emancipate the Dalit community. Recently, some chambers of commerce dedicated to Dalit entrepreneurs have come up. Yet the dominant discourse in the country is to give them…
harnessing youth for nation building: In a pluralistic, democratic and polycentric society, it is natural that building consensus will not be easy around a minimum agreed plan for mobilising youth for nation building. However, I want to try and propose an agenda for debate and modification so that a non-controversial pathway to progress…
Budget for unleashing creative potential of India Railway budget, regardless of what anyone else thinks, is a progressive budget for women, elderly, physically challenged, poor who cannot afford to reserve seats, and for the environment and also for those who want to see India clean and orderly. I welcome the fund for promoting start-ups for…
No doubt every country needs to reflect from time to time on certain core values which almost define its character. But to expect consensus on such values is to mock at its evolving culture, it’s dynamism and its optimism. After all, if our current form of beliefs and likings or disliking fits the environment perfectly,…