Dealing with the bottom of the pyramid or tip of the iceberg, Lecture delivered at the Convention on Transforming Villages into Vibrant and Prosperous Entities-Innovative Strategies, organized by the Lucknow Management Association, Lucknow, on 24th October 2005, published in Lucknow Management Association Convention Journal (Eds., M.Akbar and Jabir Ali), Vol.1, No.1, 2005, Addendum, p.1-7. Download
Ethical issues in accessing people\’s knowledge and innovations for developing low cost health technologies, paper prepared for presentation at the IV International Congress of Ethnobotany (ICEB), Istanbul, August 21 – 26, 2005, published in the Proceedings of the ICEB 2005 (Ed. Z.Fusun Ertug), November 2006 Download
How to kill innovations: is bigger always the better? At a time when the whole country, rather the world is looking for reviving the economy, our country seems to be racing ahead in killing innovations systematically. We all know that the maximum number of jobs in the industrial sector is created by the small and…
Is longer, faster, stronger, smarter life also the happier? Reflections on slower, sustainable and more inclusive life experience, Paper prepared for presentation at the World Forum on Tomorrow’s People: The Challenges of Technologies for Life Extension and Enhancement, March 14-17, 2006 Said Business School, University of Oxford, IIMA W.P.No. 2006-04-04-O7 Download
A hive of ideas, By Peter Day, Presenter, BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service, January 11, 2006 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4603108.stm) Download
Socio ecological crisis and insurgency in marginal environments, presented at the seminar on Civil Society and Democratic Space in South Asia, in Delhi on 12th January 2006 Download
The Honey Bee Network documents indigenous knowledge and innovations in India, in innovations / Summer 2006, www. mitpress.mit.edu/innovations, p. 49 -66. Download
Indo-US Nuclear Deal: A debate, Colloquium, VIKALPA, Vol. 32, No. 4, October – December 2007 Download