Finland which often tops global PISA test to judge school level competency among children made music teaching mandatory for first six years of education. It is believed that music enriches, the “experiences, exploration and excitement” of the children and they do well in other subjects as well. Vietnam, did not withdraw from PISA test, used … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2019
How to support a crazy inventor, ahead of her/his time?
The tradition of neglecting inventors who are ahead of their time is not typically Indian. It happens in many parts of the world but that does not absolve us of the responsibility of remembering our forgotten heroes. Thanks to Dinyar patel at BBC, we just read about the story of Shankar Abaji Bhisey, who had … Continue reading
What do young tech innovators feel about emerging Innovation movement?
Deval Kariav and Rohit Nambiar belong to a new breed to tech innovators who want to make BIRAC-SRISTI-GYTI winning hardware solution for low-cost insulin pump open source. Their vision is that this pump must be affordable and accessible to the poorest diabetic patient in India and the world. Developed under the guidance of Dr Manoj … Continue reading
Creative Gadchiroli: not just a land of disquiet
Creative Gadchiroli: not just a land of disquiet When a healthy person dies, you bury him/her and if a sick person dies, you cremate her. An eclectic practice like this is certainly not a sign of a so called backward and less developed community. We had noted this practice is come villages of Bastar as … Continue reading
What do we do in shodhyatra -learning walk
we pursue several activities during shodhyatra a) on the basis of prior fieldwork, we identify key challenges in agriculture, livestock, farm machinery, food, nutrition, etc., and share the i) prior knowledge we have collected from different parts of the country with local communities and ii) the knowledge collected from local communities with their name and … Continue reading
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