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Odisha shodhyatra's pervasive poetry
(DNA, 2017-05-28)
Persist with change, don't give up!
(DNA Ahmedabad, 2017-08-06)
New idiom of governance: need for self-critical discourse
(DNA, 2018-03-26)
Harnessing wisdom for managing watersheds: honey bee perspective on innovations, institutions and policies for marginal environments
(2010-07-22)
Participatory approaches for watershed management are now considered essential for sustainable natural resources
management and yet there is very little opportunity for intellectual participation by the people. This ...
Women and formal and informal science
(2010-07-26)
In this paper, we compare our insights from the formal scientific sector with our investigations in informal scientific sector. The effort to blend excellence in formal and informal scientific sectors would require overcoming ...
Building upon grassroots innovations: articulating social and ethical capital
(2010-01-18)
The healthy growth of democracy depends upon the emergence of decentralized, dispersed, polycentric spurs of social, ecological and economic entrepreneurship. Networking among these seemingly disparate cross currents some ...
Innovation, Investment, Enterprise: Generating Sustainable Livelihood at Grassroots through Honey Bee Philosophy
(2013-11-26)
In memory of Dr. C.V. Seshadri, a maverick scientist and a social change agent, it is suggested that a new model for sustainable livelihoods is followed. The ex-ante and ex-post transaction costs of innovators, investors ...
Values in Vogue: Institutional Pathways for Sustaining Grassroots Innovations for Creating Public Goods
(2013-11-27)
The institutional pathways through which grassroots struggles and initiatives can not only be articulated but also nurtured are crucial for inclusive development. It has been noted earlier that to institutionalize even a ...
Science and Technology for Inclusive Social Development in 12th Five Year Plan
(2013-11-26)
India has used science and technology for social development right from the beginning of planned development. The first time when television programmes were beamed through satellite, it was for education and not just ...
Roadmap for Educational Innovation in Institutions of Higher Learning: Towards Inter-University Centre for Innovation
(2013-11-26)
It is ironic that while searching for models that promote excellence, we have not made the outstanding teachers and researchers the hub of future reforms. The fact that in any field of social investigation or higher ...