Lessons from bastar: Excellence , environment, ethics, equity, education and empathy When physical, cultural and social environment of a region indicates enormous opportunities for learning and development, quality of the environment for governance becomes the pivot for future choices. In Bastar, we saw many examples of excellence, which were rooted in its natural and socio-cultural…
‘Our head is on the top, trees have head at the bottom’: lessons from Bastar-1 After walking 175 km in Narayanpur district, part of Bastar region for a week along with 35 shodh yatris, mostly young people and majority from Gujarat as always, we learned a great deal about richness of Gondi tribal communities. Be it…
just as kashmiris some times say, they have a voice independent of what their so called supporters across the borders claim, similarly tribals in bastar also have a voice, which we heard and which is not necessarily Maoists voice. Police is doing a great damage by muting this voice, by arresting innocent tribals and by suspecting every youth as a naxalite ally. I…
Inclusion through innovations: creative individuals and perceptive institutions A farmers who breeds new varieties of chillies in which pod don’t droop down but face upwards, develops mangoes grafts that taste and yield well despite little irrigation, uses biogas to run cattle milking machine and designs motorized weeder, sprayers etc., should be a familiar name in the country. But…
Inclusive growth: fund workers welfare through a new professional tax Any region which grows fast is bound to attract labour from rest of the regions but particularly economically backward regions. When these workers go back, they can potentially become the ambassador of the region which hosted them and also future consumer of the goods and services…
planting a billion trees: premji bhai inspires the mission of Dr Kalam While reading the latest issue of Honey Bee Newsletter in Circuit house on 8th night, a cartoon on the life of Premji bhai drew attention of Dr. Kalam. He had recently given a call for ten billion tree to be planted worldwide and here was a…
http://host.madison.com/ct/business/cross_country/article_4b443b5d-5d4e-5e83-a29a-772b4c24ce1d.html Cross Country: Windmills are signs of earlier time on farm Story Discussion Image (12) Font Size: Default font size Larger font size JOHN F. ONCKEN | Correspondent for The Capital Times | Posted: Thursday, May 6, 2010 3:00 pm | No Comments Posted This 80-foot windmill is a landmark at the Vincent and Virginia Meinholz farm…
Name : Nikhilesh Das and Debanjan Mukherjee District : Guwahati State : Assam Category : Student Award : National Water pollution has become one of the biggest issues of the modern era and the most hazardous of all the water pollutants is oil. The pollution due to oil effluents not only destroy the aquatic life…
AN UPDATE ON OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF MR. PRAHLAD JANI AT STERLING HOSPITAL AHMEDABAD BEING DONE BY DEFENCE INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY AND ALLIED SCIENCES (DIPAS), DRDO, DELHI IN COLLOBORATION WITH STERLING HOSPITAL , SRISTI AND GOVT. OF GUJARAT An observational study on Mr Prahlad Jani was carried out for 15 days wef 22 Apr 2010…
http://chealth.canoe.ca/channel_health_news_details.asp?news_id=30729&news_channel_id=131&channel_id=131 Salad spinner the latest innovation in anemia Provided by: QMI Written by: QMI Agency May. 3, 2010 Two Texas university students are hoping their small changes to a salad spinner will help save lives. Rice University students Lila Kerr and Lauren Theis modified the device, normally used to dry lettuce, so it acts as…