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Decoding access
(Seminar, 2008-11-09)
ACCESS to higher education has been a long-standing policy concern in India. Reservation for different social groups at the central and state levels has been a typical policy response. With the implementation of reservation ...
Hey! I put in my papers!
(Human Capital, 2008)
1st February, 2005, 9.A.M.
As usual, Hari was working hard to pull out the assignment that was to be submitted that day. It was a real chilling morning in the early January of Ahmedabad. The phone rang… it was Vijay. ...
PSFC: farmers' commission or food security mission
(2008-07-24)
T
he Indian Retail Industry seems to have found its first cross road, after almost 10 years of freeway. During its course it
has sprung several surprises, several avoidable mistakes and some unavoidable circumstances. ...
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 ...
Which way do you want to serve your customers
(2002-10-19)
Library service is essentially a service to the community of users. But some librarians could be accused of poor services to customers. The development of customer-oriented services skills not only allows the library to ...
The politics of loan waivers
(Transforming India, 2008-11-11)
On examining broad numbers of indebted farmers commiting suicide, we realise that these farmers are not necessarily the small and the marginal. From the statistics of the Reserve Bank, it is evident that while agricultural ...
Indian agriculture: retrospective and prospects
(2001-07-17)
As India has depend almost exclusively on her own efforts and resources, she must not depend too much on external markets in the short run. She must economize on resources in all fronts ans channel them towards building ...
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, ...