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        Emerging auto innovations at grassroots: an  inspiring story of Nasirbhai   With the news of Maruti setting up  another plant in Gujarat, it is beyond doubt that Gujarat is emerging as a...

Should we convert natural disasters into manmade ones? Recent earthquake in Gujarat has revised the unfortunate memories of 2001. Have we learned the right lessons and can GSDMA and National authority do something more about it?...

The Idea and Innovation contest- IGNITE 2011’s school student award winners October 15, 2011 Ahmedabad National Innovation Foundation – India (NIF), Ahmedabad announces the names of the award winners of the IGNITE 2011 – school students’...

I have high respect for Anna who has taught in my course at IIMA and also whose work I had the opportunity to see with him way back in early 80’s.  I have no doubt that the...

SRISTI YUVA Yantriki award  SRISTI invites entries from past or present students or faculty on behalf of their students( who have passed out) of technical institutions/universities of such students projects which address an important social, environmental...

The mandarins: why do I suffer for my sanity Simone de Beauvoir, an outstanding novelist and a companion of Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a semi autobiographical novel, which evoked an eternal dilemma for an intellectual or a...

Jeremy Rifkin Author, \’The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World\’ GET UPDATES FROM Jeremy Rifkin Like 154 The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Will Transform Society (Excerpt)...

Challenging and rewarding innovators worldwide: A forgotten Gandhian legacy Time and again when I have the opportunity to talk to budding managers, leaders and senior policy makers of our society, I remind them of a guilt...

Conserving vultures through a tree climber, spreading clay nest for birds The cross fertilization of ideas across the country has continued unabated, despite lack of physical exhibitions of grassroots innovations in different parts of the country.  ...

Are Gandhian tools of civil resistance  relevant today? The recent breakthrough that Anna Hazare had with the Indian Parliament through a persistent non-violent social pressure has brought  the issue of civil resistance, or  protest and corruption...