Eleven-year-old Tarna has given the idea of an umbrella, which could be held by two children from two sides under which other children can stand and thus go to school together without getting drenched.Whenever it rained, Tarna and his schoolmates walked to school under a shared umbrella as most students in his village could not…
Mohammad Tawseef from Jammu & Kashmir could not attend school regularly during the last academic session due to the 15 surgeries that he had to undergo. His pain did not deter him from thinking about how he could change the lives of people and to begin with he chose the problem his mother faced persistently.…
The National Innovation Foundation- India (NIF) has released the list of winners of the Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam IGNITE 2015 Award, on his 84th birth anniversary on Thursday. IGNITE-a national competition of original technological ideas and innovations by children up to class 12 or those out of school up to the age of 17 years…
There is a strong desire in the country to promote an entrepreneurial culture, which not only serves social needs through market but also non-market channels. Not every body can excel in all links in the knowledge and value chain for the purpose. Some can produce useful knowledge while other can add value, develop products and…
While holding a tray in hand, we have often wondered why nobody put a system of pedal operated door opening system. Jayaprakash Ratwa, Grambharti, Amarapur and Tanmaya Takale from Pune have suggested a new arrangement for opening doors. Have not you regretted that a lot of papers, which are printed of various meetings go waste…
SRISTI, NIF, GIAN and other Honey Bee Network members mourn the sad demise of Shri Parshottam B Patel on October 29, 2015; one of the longest serving member of the SRISTI family. He had helped in organising or implementing almost all the 35 Shodhyatras in different states of India. He had represented the Honey Bee…
Why did you go to such interior places in Bastar? Don’t you know it is dangerous, asked the Police officer. Parshottam replied, “How else will we learn about the problems of the neglected communities?”. He was involved in designing a route plan for almost all the thirty five Shodhyatras in practically in every state of…
When honourable President Shri Pranab Mukherjee recognizes and celebrates the creativity of children on Nov 30, 2015 at IIMA, he will once again underline his deep faith in the innovative potential of younger generation. National Innovation Foundation announced the winner sof this year’s winners on Oct 15, the birthday of Dr A P J Abdul…
How do we reshape electoral discourse: can we go beyond caste and communal agenda The election commission had to first time issue an advisory to all political parties to shun use of basal identities for invoking participation of people in the festival of democracy that is election. Why has discourse in the biggest democracy…
Creating innovation Playground When clouds do not rain: getting ready for the drought of innovations or a flood of creativity Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, then how are we missing the connections between wisdom that helps in deciding which ideas to choose and which not for taking these forward, even one’s…