what we will do with the data on games: we have to make a spreadsheet of all the games. we have to send messages to those who have mentioned less known or games unknown to us to get more information. Then we should divide the games on the basis of the uncertainty or strategic skill…
How to kill innovations: is bigger always the better? At a time when the whole country, rather the world is looking for reviving the economy, our country seems to be racing ahead in killing innovations systematically. We all know that the maximum number of jobs in the industrial sector is created by the small and…
Harnessing tech students for addressing industrial problems When SRISTI started cooperation with many MSME through GTU in Gujarat, a lot of people were sceptics. Even the entrepreneurs were sceptic. Many of them felt that students used to come for training, how they can be expected to solve the problems. Some even put up a board that…
Even the mightiest multinational corporations are recognizing the limits of learning about new ideas from within the corporate boundary. Many of them have gone on record that in the near future, they expect more than 50 per cent of new leads for products and services to come from outside the organization. The ideas may occur…
It is very encouraging to see an upsurge of interest among various classes of consumers about organically grown food products. However, lest this interest evaporates soon, it might be useful to understand little more deeply the way organic agriculture movement has emerged in different parts of the world and how we could strengthen it in our…
Anjani Mashelkar, Dr R A Mashelkar´s mother brought him up by facing all the odds that a poor widowed uneducated mother, moving to Mumbai with her only child, a six year old boy, would face. And this she did with courage and dignity. She was all along concerned about the poor old people and always…
mail from arinjay, needs no comment, in the context of iit admissions arinjaykr@gmail.com Respected Sir, I know a boy, who has very village Back ground Cracked IIT JEE exam. in 2000, he took admission in ISM Dhanbad, because it is near, and cost of living is low. In final year he was selected in an software company.…
posted on my fb IIT admission: some posers to young iitians: a) am i right in saying that if we allow school board exams numbers to be added, major advantage will be to urban and elite school students no matter which board? b) is it true that rural schools score lower marks even if the…
Building institutions for collective governance: horizontalization of society There is a crisis in the country at all levels. Most institutions, elite or otherwise seem to be becoming more centralised, impervious to the feedback from below, lacking horizontal and vertical accountability and are also getting alienated from common interest. Why is such a spectacle being…
Returning from a very inspiring visit to suruchi yantra vidyalaya and sampoornav kranti vidyalaya vedchi. Suruchi has more than 40 kinds of hand tools for workers for improving their productivity. Mohannbhai parikh had set up this centre for improving the skills of blacksmiths, and also their tools and furnaces for making implements for farming fifty…