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Why is media so Apathetic?
(2003-10-22)
Media - both public and private - tracks
social consciousness. It often shapes
public opinion but sometimes also
blunts public sensitivity to various
issues that may appear out of sync with
popular mood and perceptions. ...
Agricultural biotechnology in India: ethics, business and politics
(2005-10-25)
This paper deals with the case of Bt cotton in Gujarat, India, as an
illustration of how public policy chickens out when large-scale violation of
ethical and scientific norms takes place with positive business ...
Mobilizing grassroots' technological innovations and traditional knowledge, values and institutions: articulating social and ethical capital
(2003-10-22)
The Honey Bee Network has helped provide a sort of loose platform to converge creative,
but uncoordinated individuals across not only Indian states having varying cultural, linguistic
and social ethos, but also in 75 ...
From sink to source: the honey bee network documents indigenous knowledge and innovations in India
(2006-10-29)
India has a natural wealth of biodiversity, thanks to variations in its climates
and soil conditions and its geographical features, including rain forests, arid lands,
and mountains. Yet many of India’s most biologically ...
Knowledge based empowerment of local bodies: generating entrepreneurial approach to development
(2007-11-02)
The entire developmental paradigm in the post independence history has been based on
the premise that the role of state is to give, what people don’t have. The infrastructure,
the skills, the resources and the framework ...
Grassroots innovations for survival
(2000-10-15)
Although participation is much discussed, poor people rarely get the opportunity to develop their
own agenda and vision or set terms for the involvement of outsiders. The entire participatory
paradigm illustrates that ...
Seduce the Scientist
(2009-04-29)
There is worldwide indifference among formal and institutional
scientists about local knowledge and people’s
ability to solve problems. This indifference has only increased
by the use of short cut methods of learning, ...