I happened to meet several groups of young students and scholars in NIT and IIT’s during last week. One of the concern I have is that large number of very bright young technological and management students ( science students seem to suffer less from this problem) get easily distracted by messages and notifications on which … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2017
How to Volunteer? : Voluntering for an Inclusive Innovation Movement
You may be a writer artist, small or big investor, entrepreneur, academic, school teacher, ecologist, food technologist; agricultural, veterinary, human or microbiological scientist, engineer, fabricator, student, a vendor on the street, shop keeper, householder, translator, government servant, corporate executive, lawyer, manager of an incubator, a start-up, or just a farmer, pastoralist etc. You may just … Continue reading
Sankranti : a time to let seasons change, dreams kites fly
If we had our way, we will all live in an yesterday land, and that too not just any ‘yesterday’ but the one that we liked the most. But Sankranti/Pongal festival tells us that seasons must change and there is no season which stays forever. Thank god that it does not. Will life be any … Continue reading
Slum Shine (Shining every poor)- Biren Padhya
Mr. Biren Padhya has been successful in educating & schooling children from 17 slums across Ahmedabad through his venture Slum Shine. He also focuses on protecting environment by carrying out several tree plantation drives as well as provide animal helpline services. He has also recorded sound of 150 different birds & has also made … Continue reading
If you don’t teach me something new, you are not my friend
What could be a good mantra to welcome the new year than to insist on making relationships also learning bonds? If there are three circles or venn diagrams, learning, loving and living, I will always want to be at their intersection. How can one live without learning and can we learn without loving or vice versa? May … Continue reading
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