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I am very happy to invite you to the sixth Biennial Presidential Grassroots Innovation Award on  March 9, 2012 at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi.  Hon\’ble President will inaugurate the fourth Grassroots Innovation Exhibition at President\’s house near...

Next Steps: Nurturing unplanned innovations The response to the column last week was very enthusiastic and I am convinced that the idea of Innovation Park should not be given up. Several colleagues wrote back offering resources,...

Should we  create an innovation park, or should I/we give up? I normally don\’t start a dialogue on a negative note ever. But permit me to say that i have failed to get powers that be,...

Innovations in food and food for innovations Now that results have started coming in from the techpedia.in initiative of SRISTI, I think new benchmarks can be created to measure productivity of technology youth.  For last fourteen years, SRISTI has...

 Four  kinds of innovation leaders: Pioneer –see far in future:    visionaries                networker                institution builder         Pioneering ideas can come from below as well Executioner—excel in present              motivation by...

For just a drop of water: Sanskar of sanitation and conservation   The recent 28th shodhyatra  in Mizoram has been quiet cathartic for me personally. I had been aware of the need to conserve water and...

anna\’s suggestion about compulsory nod of panchayats on all bills is an interesting one. But it needs some modification. Swiss constitution has a provision that of any issue gets signed by 100,000 voters, then government is...

the suggestion that Railways should raise 25 per cent fare to meet the cost of modernisation needs rethinking. People should ask whether the committee considered the role of a) reducing procurement cost, b) did it look...

Rebuilding institutions of higher learning: expansion, inclusion and excellence In the recent Indian Science Congress, Prime Minister bemoaned the fact that China had overtaken India on various indicators of performance in higher education.  It is ironic...

Civilizational crosscurrents of learning across the borders Recent visit to China once again convinced  me about the enormous potential that exists for changing the course of global development by synergising Indo-china cooperation for the larger social...