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02 July

Global inclusive development challenges- meeting the unmet needs II

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Global inclusive development challenges- meeting the unmet needs II There are problems on which several foundations have thrown billions of dollars but they still remain intractable. Last week I shared several such challenges with examples of...

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25 June

Global Innovation challenges: a call for creative connections with children, youth and women

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When any society learns to live with solvable problems by reinforcing inertia, indifference and also internalizing helplessness, then imagination gets stifled first. Once imagination gets constrained, innovations are unlikely to follow. UNICEF and SRISTI have joined...

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16 June

A kurta without a stitch: 39th Shodhyatra

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A kurta without a stitch: 39th Shodhyatra Imagine wearing a kurta in which there is no stitch, it would be difficult for us to think of it. But, a weaver Karna Mehr had actually woven a...

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16 June

Odisha Shodhyatra: Pervasive Poetry, widespread experiments, healthy children

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Odisha Shodhyatra: Pervasive Poetry, widespread experiments, healthy children There could not have been better start of second round of shodhyatras around the country. While waking from Baripali to Narsinghnath, Bargarh district, we met very vibrant,...

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16 June

Making Indo-African cooperation a two way street: learning from china

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Making Indo-African cooperation a two way street Having just returned from 39th shodhyatra in western Odisha, I can say that if we find In AFRICA even ten percent of the innovations and unique traditional knowledge that we...

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16 June

Bullets can not Buy Peace, Dialogue the Only Answer

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Idea, i.e., inclusive, peaceful India In a diverse civilizational society, it is inevitable that one would find multiple perspectives on the concept of nationhood. To expect uniformity, would be to kill the source of sustainability:...

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16 June

why are farmers protesting? a time for hard questions

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Farmers’ Protests: time for hard questions At the outset, I fully share the grief of families which lost their earning members during recent firing or because of suicides. But I must also state that just because...

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28 March

Big mandates: Bigger Vision and Even Higher Compassion

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When society gives big mandates to parties and social standpoints, it also expects magnanimity and inclusiveness in the same measure. I want to list some of the reforms that are crying for implementation in the larger institutional interest...

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14 March

Presidency 2012-17: A Legacy of Inclusive Grassroots Innovation

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What is common among Santosh Pachar, a lady farmer from Rajasthan, Paresh Panchal, a mechanic from Gujarat, Akash a tenth class student from Tamil Nadu, Shalini, a student from Patna and six other innovators from around...

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