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Why is not Indian state impatient with marginal regions and institutions?

After completing the walking and exploring course, shodhyatra in churah valley, Chamba, Himachal Pradesh IIMA students had an opportunity to meet Mr Hansraj dy speaker of Himachal Pradesh. Mr Hansraj,

Chamba Shodhyatra: Creative children in a constrained economy

Recently, I shared the encounters we had with creative children of Rapar, Bachaun And Anjar in Kutch. I also met after that Shodhyatra with Kantikaka who started to paint and

Leveraging creativity of children for a new, invigorated and youthful India: 42-shodhyatra Kutch

Naresh, of Class 1, sambuvad, bowled us all over with his creativity. Just a five-year-old, Naresh was the third most young student giving a brilliant idea. Earlier, two students from

Fury of floods: Persistent neglect of drainage & conservation

Extraordinary tragedy in Kerala has brought into sharp focus the persistent, pervasive and profound neglect of drainage, waterbodies, conservation of catchment areas, excessive denudation of forest, and several other areas

Increasing farmers’ income through reduction in cost of cultivation

When the goal of increasing the income of farmers and workers has gained national priority across the spectrum of ideological boundaries, is not it strange that excessive focus is on

Why should companies learn from consumers? A driver as the designer

In the age of open reciprocal and responsible innovations, the lack of openness in many organizations is difficult to appreciate. Why do organizations hesitate in learning from all around, particularly

How do we transform technology research and education: ranking, relevance and global reputation

There is a widespread concern that while on one hand, we want to build institutions of high ranking globally (according to criteria developed by private  ranking institutions), on the other we

Research for meeting unmet needs: Taxonomy of translational models

A very large number of high-tech labs in the country were set up to solve the unmet needs of the society but the pace at which solutions flow to society

New Eco-preneurial approaches for transforming social imagination-1

Indian society is becoming aspirational, entrepreneurial, and also more accommodative of new social and economic experiments for changing everyday life experience of the masses. When socio-economic transition takes place, lot

Tracking social trajectory: indicators of civilizational maturity

Indian society is passing through a critical phase. The rise of entrepreneurial aspirations, as I said last week, has given rise to a justifiable rise in material and consumptive ambitions.