Blog Archive

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

\’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.,...

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...

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...

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...

Seven Lessons we can learn from creative children When Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, our former President of India honours the creative children from around the country on Nov 11, 2011 at Ignite function at...