Vidya recently spoke about how food is preserved in her village. She explained the construction of a fridge that works without electricity. She did some exhaustive research in the field, and presented a seminar on the same. She also spoke about how food can be kept cold or hot for a long time with local household methods, a technique practised in India for thousands of years. Watch the video below- Continue reading
Category Archives: Education
Exam blues… continues…
I am in my final year of engineering, and hopefully in the last year of my formal education. In these 20 years of education, I would have written no less than 1000 exams. Unlike my exceptional facebook, kung-fu, bowling and rubik’s cube solving skills, I must admit that I am pretty bad at writing exams. Continue reading
Posted in Education, Personal, Philosophy
To all budding entrepreneurs
Many of us believe that being an entrepreneur is being your own boss. I see friends around me who want to start their own business because it either makes them rich or the boss of their own lives. I think this attitude is wrong.
Becoming an entrepreneur does not necessarily make one rich. We hear stories of those who became rich, and not of the ones who failed, just the way how we read interviews of successful film stars and not of the struggling ones.
Being the master of your fate is partially true. In the long term, yes, an entrepreneur can choose the direction he is heading, but his day to day life is miserable. Instead of having one boss now, he now has to listen to employees, customers, suppliers, auditors, investors, family, to name a few.
So why is being an entrepreneur such an interesting thing to do? Because, it is a field of work where technology, science, arts, economics, humanities, psychology, philosophy, and finance converge. You are not only trying to create, you are also predicting human behavior as you create. The scientist, the artist, and the businessman are but a single person. This is a new phenomena in human progress and is here to stay.
Posted in Economy, Education, Technology
Pesticides and dairy farming in Indian villages
My friend Shweta recently spoke about natural pesticides that a local farmer in her village uses to yield better crops. She did some exhaustive research in the field, and presented a seminar in one of our Traditional Indian Science and Technology classes. She also spoke about how her father used innovative local techniques to increase the milk their cows yielded. All of it organic and purely local knowledge. Watch the video below- Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Economy, Education, Nature, Technology
Are we turning into robots?
Chat online, tickets online, banking online, mobile recharge online, books online, mail online, dating online, order food online, travel online, jobs online, shopping online, gaming online, socialising online, cinema online. Is our life restricted inside a plastic box? Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Education, Nature, Technology