Rethinking the framework of project management While talking to a very large community of project management professionals in Bangalore recently, it became obvious that the project management framework needs a

FPM Course: 2013, Term II-III Institution Building for Sustainable Development Course Instructor – Prof. Anil K. Gupta (Wing 13, Extension Number – 4927) Introduction With the passage of time, the

Aesthetics of alienation   Recently when the film Ship of Theseus drew full house, the philosophical root of the question behind its story somehow did not get discussed enough in society. Anand Gandhi has dared to ask some very fundamental

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

Anjani Mashelkar Inclusive Innovation AwardAnjani Mashelkar, Dr R.A. Mashelkar´s mother, brought him up facing all the odds that a poor widowed uneducated mother moving to Mumbai with her only child

Towards a new social contract: police and the society   Recently while talking to around 150 probationers at National Police Academy, Hyderabad, several interesting issues emerged in the context of

          Circular economy is booming when ‘take, make, faink’ is slowing down This is for the first time in the history of industrial economic development, green business ( blue economy)

Who is an authentic professional: responsibility of a professional in a public project intervention     Recently while debating the design, location, and erection of flyover, a leading architect who

A paradox of modern times is that as our awareness about new knowledge is increasing, our ability to develop a feel for the problems around us is decreasing. It seems we are getting immunised

First Published: Mon, Jul 01 2013. 11 41 PM IST MINT Natubhai, from Gujarat, has been trying to develop a machine to pick cotton from dryland varieties of the crop