From Madiba to Mabena: A tribute to Mandela Recently I happened to visit Pretoria for a conference on discourse on Innovations from Below. There were various viewpoints presented in the

The inclusive development is not an obligation to be met, it is a strategy for growth and sustainability I meet many entrepreneurs to learn about the blend between business, benevolence

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when we published articles on milk as a means of controlling viral disease, Indian scientists as usual ignored the evidence, now that The Economist has published news about mother’s milk

Can the mind of bureaucracy be reformatted? Recently while addressing the probationers who have just entered the civil service, I was very impressed with many ideas that they generated on

32nd Shodh Yatra Punjab,28th December, 2013 to 2nd January, 2014 we pay tribute to the valiant efforts of Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal who mobilized local communities to clean the Kali

what do we do with trees uprooted in odisha: “The high-velocity cyclone Phailin that hit Odisha about a week ago is estimated to have destroyed around 26 lakh trees in

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Delivering public services in time to 35 million citizens? Karnataka has crated a global benchmark in terms of delivery of public services through the Sakala programme. Starting in 2012, the

why should start-ups suffer so much in the decade of innovation During last two years, despite umpteen rounds of discussion, it was realized that the new India Inclusive Innovation Fund