anil k gupta blog

ALL FOR A CUP OF TEA  All of us take a cup of tea in the morning and during the day to charge our batteries.  However, seldom do we realize the pain of the tealeaf pickers. ...

shape of things to come: predicting future designs What kind of furniture will be designed in future? whether cycle will remain frozen in its form and features as it has been for last six to seven...

 http://www.scidev.net/En/opinions/we-must-nurture-a-new-innovation-politics.html We must nurture a new innovation politics Adrian Ely and Kevin Urama   14 June 2010 | EN | Ã¤Â¸Â­Ã¦â€“‡ The STEPS manifesto calls for support for grassroots innovation Ashden Awards Adrian Ely and Kevin Urama call for a...

Change of Pattern of Funding from Corpus Fund to Regular Annual Budget for National Innovation Foundation (NIF), Ahmedabad 14:17 IST The Union Cabinet today approved the change of pattern of funding from Corpus Fund to Regular...

Strategy to deal with Naxal Violence: CAN Gandhian methods still help? A few lessons from  insurgency around the world may be helpful in looking at this problem in our own country too. Red shirt protectors may have...

 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...

‘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...

 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...

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...

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...