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From Tianjin to cancun: failure of climate change conference but innovators can still help On Saturday,  the host country China expressed disappointment with the attitude of the developed nations who seemed to be backtracking on the commitments...

Laitkynsew village is home of the living root bridges across the monsoon-fed river. The local Khasi and Jaintia people have managed to somehow train the secondary roots of trees to travel across the river and then...

Machine for Picking dryland cotton in standing crop: Nattubhai’s saga The story of Natthubhai, a thirty nine year old, passionate farmer pursuing his dream of developing a tractor drawn mobile cotton picking machine is a story...

Water, wisdom and wars: when hunger stalks, anger is not far behind When several parts of the world are facing flood, talking about drought may seem queer.  But the fact is that millions of hectares and people...

dissent, disagreement and diversity: agenda for national innovation council   It was very gratifying that in the first formal meeting of NIC held  recently in Planning Commission, diverse opinions were expressed about how to take forward the...

 http://www.ethiopianreview.com/business/30501 Grassroots innovation swirls at Nairobi’s Maker Faire GEreports.com | September 8th, 2010 at 8:53 am | All around the world, Maker Faires bring out an array of inventors, tinkerers and hidden geniuses. Africa recently held its second one...

Social challenge awards of Rs twenty  crore: A Gandhian legacy The fact that there is not a single challenge award at the national level illustrates the logic of inertia and indifference that the state has towards...

innovations in public systems: who will bell the  cat? May be not many people noticed two of the important recommendations of the 13th Finance commission ( FC). One was to create an institutional framework for systematic scouting,...

Dreaming a museum of  innovations and crazy creativity:  where will it happen? Will children be my allies? After all, there are so many science parks and museum, there are also  technology parks, art and culture museum every where but...

Underdog Creativity Free condoms are used to lubricate machines and transport water, men declared dead try to get arrested to prove they are alive 3 BY Shubhangi Swarup EMAIL AUTHOR(S) TAGGED UNDER | dead | machines | alive | condoms CREATIVE INDIAN All these men...