India can be proud of its great scientific achievements, many of them realised by scientists in the public sector – like being the first country to send a lunar-lander and lunar-rover Chandrayaan-3 to the South pole of the moon, at…
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I am extremely sad at the mob violence over running India’s universities in the name of service to country. The miscreants who beat up students in JNU must be condemned and dealt with immediately according to the rules of the…
The 9th #SITE4Society event at United Nations University-MERIT was a #Sanitation awareness educational quiz to commemorate #WorldToiletDay (November 19th). Participants were quizzed about the interlinkages between health and sanitation. Then, they were challenged to identify the technological, behavioural, organizational and…
FIN Asks: Would the Mahatma Approve? Today is Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi had targeted for India to become an open defecation free country. Millions of toilets have been built in India and its citizenry has…
I was at this conference, and I caught sight of Prof. Carl Pray, internationally renowned for his work on agriculture in developing countries including India. Though I do not share his enthusiasm for genetically modified plant varieties or newer biotech…
March 8, 2019 As we dream and work towards improving the lives of girls and women at Kameshwaram, let me share with you all a little story that I wrote many years back for Joanna. (Thank you!). There was this…
Satyam Eva Jayete is the philosophy that most of us in India are brought up with. And over the years of my earthly wanderings across continents, I have realised that this is taught in many countries, in different tongues, illustrated…