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Thought Factory

Technology, Health And Media- Searching For Breakthroughs

August 1994- Sitting in a state transport bus on way to a remote village in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, I was marvelling at the greenery all around.  T...

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Bollywood

Between Life Support And Death

In the recent Bollywood release Piku, 70-year-old Bhaskar Banerjee played by Amitabh Bachchan expresses shock that Rana (Irrfan Khan) allowed his cancer-stricken father to ...

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Sustainable Development

IIT-Gandhinagar to launch centre for sustainable development

The workshop had brought together a select group of thought, policy and practice leaders from government, academia, civil society and practitioners to help IIT-Gn operation...

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Health

Wider Choices Vital For Safe Motherhood

India has made commendable progress towards ensuring safe motherhood for women in recent years.                      ...

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Sustainable Development

Design That Solves Problems For The World?s Poor

“A billion customers in the world,” Dr. Paul Polak told a crowd of inventors recently, “are waiting for a $2 pair of eyeglasses, a $10 solar lantern and a...

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Thought Factory

Negotiating Identity In The Changing Times

“The real world is simply too terrible to admit. It tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die. Culture changes all of this, mak...

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Sustainable Development

Indian state utility NTPC given green light for 15 GW solar plan

India’s union cabinet approved on Wednesday a proposal from state utility NTPC Ltd to develop 15 GW of grid-connected solar PV projects in the country. The proposal w...

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Health

Tackling Maternal, Infant Mortality Through Increased Ambulance Service

Nigeria’s maternal and infant mortality has remained one of the highest in the world and a source of concern to many people. WINIFRED OGBEBO examines the issue and th...

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Eye Think

How Data Can Improve the Impact of Stories

‘Our ancestors created their myths and told their stories for a human purpose. Any good story, any good novel, should have a message’, wrote Chinua Achebe, the ...

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Sustainable Development

A story of drinkers, genocide and unborn girls – Why Men on Earth Outnumber Women by 60 million –

Left to nature alone, the population on earth would be give or take 50% men and 50% women, according to what’s become known as Fisher’s Principle. The fact that...

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