Would you not enjoy at Sattvik, an unusual dish for us that is, aranchini rice ball made of aromatic rice Joha stuffed with different vegetables? Or for that matter, a cheela made of drumstick leaves by another group might give you nutrition, taste and aesthetic pleasure. So many farmers and entrepreneurs have brought different traditional…
While interacting with the leaders of AYUSH system in India, it became clear that many major shifts are warranted to make Ayurveda a system of first choice in synergy with other components of AYUSH system. Recent study after examining more than seven lakh patients, enrolled 81,000 patients of a few of the leading Non communicable…
Many of us have benefitted from Ayurvedic treatment for problems for which other treatment might not have proved as effective or mY have reached their limits. The patients generally consult Ayurvedic experts only when they reach the limits of allopathic systems.Showing results in the old chronic disease cases is not easy. If still viable results…
1992, I had edited a special issue of the Administrator, the journal of LBSNAA, at the invitation of the the-then Director Mr B N Yugandhar on the Administrative Innovations. Many examples of outstanding innovations were pooled in that volume. For instance, an administrator found that there were long queues for paying road tax outside the…
Jerky ride on an uneven bumpy road will unnerve anyone. But if a patient on a stretcher has to be carried in an ambulance on such away, will that patient not be inconvenienced even more? This question might not bother is, the grown up because we have learned to live with inertia and inconvenience for decades…
Communities of thought, practice, and forecasting future shape our individual aspirations and value system. If these communities spur the conversation about the future generation, and forge rituals for remembering their share in our current consumption, they foster a different kind of lifestyle and institutions than when we ignore such conversations. Similarly, when communities invoke in…
When did we last study the lifestyle, food habits, way of thinking and behaving and living of those grandmothers who have never gone to a hospital in their entire life of 70-90 years? Why do we always draw lessons for health by studying the problems of sick people? Why cannot we learn from those who…
Shahid Bhagat Singh, whose birth anniversary nation celebrated recently, reminded us that it was easy to kill an individual, but not to kill an idea. Mahatma Gandhi was killed but his ideas endure. No idea remains valid for all times unless it assimilates evolving contradictions of social, cultural and environmental consciousness. When he gave a…
Who would have imagined that Indian search for inclusive development, thanks to National Innovation Foundation-India (NIF), would have achieved such transformative results in mobilising innovative ideas from disadvantaged children? In the latest round of ideas received by NIF, more than seventy per cent, yes, seventy seven percent, ideas to be exact have been received from…
Empowering communities as well as designers through embedding autonomy is not enough. One must also have agency to use that autonomy for reciprocal and responsible designs for inclusive social development. Autonomy is the freedom to act. Agency is the willingness to use that freedom. Inclusive development implies technological, institutional and cultural solutions that are accessible…