Feeding two and half kg of grains to the birds standing under the sun: modern jurisprudence plays far more stress on punishment and we believe that it will act as a deterrence for future offenders.But many traditional communities followed a different logic. They believed perhaps that reforming an offender was more important than just giving a punishment. in the present case, standing barefoot under the sun in deserts…
Techpedia.in ( www.techpedia.in ): an update Techpedia, an initiative at SRISTI ( a NGO, sristi.org ) aims at putting the problems of micro, small and medium enterprises, informal sector, grassroots innovators and other social sectors on the agenda of the young technology students across the country. For over last sixty years, India has not utilized…
cine 2011/akg/iima Name email edu Experience ( years) hobbies colour u like most favorite song a favourite quote what you can not stand what you can not do without Benchmarking our understanding of innovation –ecosystem 1. what is an innovation, how do we define it? 2. is it necessary to be an innovator to be…
Sattvik: Food for thought, policy and action The action research on exploring market based mediation for generating opportunities for knowledge and resource rich but economically disadvantaged people has generated several new alternatives. We realized that women groups from over fifteen districts of Gujarat tried to commercialise their products and cooked traditional foods, they may not…
Social criticism as a trigger for innovation The democratic society can measure its success in decentralizing and opening up the decision making processes by the extent to which it invites and welcomes open social criticism. Unfortunately, the team of Anna Hazare or government or other institutions, everybody seems to believe, that entire truth is on their…
Promoting innovations, social inclusion and industrial relevance in technical education A review of over 100,000 projects done by 350,000 students from 500 institutions at techpedia.in, an imitative of SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions) shows tremendous talent that our young technology students have in the country. By not tracking this talent and…
\’Getting More from Less for Many(MLM): Gandhian engineering in action Last week, hundreds of students and faculty from diploma engineering students from Parul Polytechnic Institute, LCIT Bhandu, Hashmukh Goswami college of Engineering, Govt polytechnic Surat etc., part of GTU were provided a national platform to showcase their talent through SRITI\’s techpedia.in. DG CSIR, Dr Samir…
many state governments are trying to imporove the educational processes, pedagogy and the curiculum. In gujarat hoardes of public officials and minsiters visit different schools and evaluate the educational performance, which is good. But why are not we harnessing the services of those teachers who have been known for their innovations, their creativity and their…
Cultivating curiosity, creativity and collaboration: supporting young tech students I met during the last few days, hundreds of creative people in India and outside. Young and old, highly trained and not so educated, students and professionals, bubbling with energy and wanting to make a difference. What was the common refrain: a) how can they get technical…
Educating children for new India The achievements of Indian youth in various fields are impressive and can vindicate perhaps the system of education. However, these achievers are so few in number that to use their example for justifying large scale inertia in educational reforms will not be appropriate. Few days back, there was pleasant news that Mahima…