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 like ever in past, this time i am not sitting in NIF office day and night and working on ward book or other documents. I am working from home, teaching classes alternate day and trying to...

Do we answer questions posed by our children? DNAHM25212 | 11/8/2009 | Author : Anil Gupta | WC :528 Every child in every school needs to understand how great ideas and innovations are born Reforming education...

Anil Gupta speaks on behalf of those in villages and slums who have solved their local problems, ingeniously, without outside help. “I realized I am an exploiter,” he says: His own success is based on knowledge he...

 Mind on the margins are not marginal minds: Betting on green grassroots innovations or learning from Honey Bee network Ideas for talk: Why is that there so little content on web on  green grassroots innovations all...

Seducing the Scientists: what can grassroots innovators do? There is worldwide indifference among the formal and institutional scientists about people’s knowledge and it ability to solve local problems. This indifference has only increased after short cut...

it was fascinating to see at a meeting organised by areca research foundation, vivekanand engg collge, campco -farmers\\\’ cooperatives which markets about ten per cent  of the produce worth 700 crores; a variety of areca peeling...

visited warangal, Andhrapradesh  and talked to more than 500 students and faculty form Kakatiya university affiliated colleges. One of the new ideas which emerged was setting up of a Warangal District social venture fund. Prakash, an eminent educationalist and some other friends including the...

Kindling/killing  creativity of children: how to reform our school educational system Recently, we announced the Ignite 09 awards on the eve of Oct 15, 2009, the birth Day of Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, celebrated...

Dear Colleagues,   IIMA has a particular reason to feel happy about Noble prize for Dr.Elinor Ostrom.  More than a decade and half ago, she spent several days at the campus and delivered a   lecture at...

 many times we can not see what is so obvious. Time and again we see our institutions of higher learning being biased against merit, not universally, but in many many cases, yet we don’t both about...