Category: Articles in Magazines/Newsletters/Newspapers

milk as prevention of viral diseases like TMV, HIV andTthe Economists says so, so trust it at least now. article in honey bee in 1992 was not good enough

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when we published articles on milk as a means of controlling viral disease, Indian scientists as usual ignored the evidence, now that The Economist has published news about mother’s milk being effective in hiv prevention, hopefully planners and science leaders will wake up, Ah! colonised minds, we missed two decades of possible comparative advantage incidentally,…

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Can the mind of bureaucracy be reformatted?

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Can the mind of bureaucracy be reformatted? Recently while addressing the probationers who have just entered the civil service, I was very impressed with many ideas that they generated on the spot for redesigning services, sectors, and social context of various products we use. I have always realized that young people when they enter the…

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Towards a new social contract: police and the society

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Towards a new social contract: police and the society   Recently while talking to around 150 probationers at National Police Academy, Hyderabad, several interesting issues emerged in the context of rising expectations of society and declining autonomy of police forces. It seems that all of us want police to keep villages and city safe, but…

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Circular economy is booming when ‘take, make, faink’ is slowing down

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          Circular economy is booming when ‘take, make, faink’ is slowing down This is for the first time in the history of industrial economic development, green business ( blue economy) which looks at both biological and non biological feedback systems to be sustainable (cradle to cradle approach compatible with industrial ecology framework) seems to be…

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Who is an authentic professional: responsibility of a professional in a public project

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Who is an authentic professional: responsibility of a professional in a public project intervention     Recently while debating the design, location, and erection of flyover, a leading architect who had designed the new campus of IIMA  and who is also a dear friend, Bimal Patel, said, “AMC just wanted my company to design the flyover…

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