Shikshanakke Number 1 Priority Sigabeku (Kannada).
Rohini Nilekani.
Type: Article
From darkness unto light – Akshara foundation has initiated 20,000 slum children into education by integrating private, voluntary and government sectors.
SMALL drops in an ocean. This is how the people at Akshara describe their efforts. Ali this despite the fact that 20,000 children in slums around Bangalore have already been initiated into the world of letters by this foundation through its educational programme.
MONOPOLY ON IDEAS
More an explorer than a strategist, the Net-economy woman is teaching business how to do the job.
These are snapshots of four women from Bangalore, perhaps the fastest evolving city in India. I have chosen them because I like to believe these women are part of our mentor capital. 1 like to believe that we need to know more about them and about women like them. How we use that capital is up to each one of us. But we are going to feel richer just for knowing it’s there.
Keeping The Romance Alive
What is the price of fame? Incessant travel, for one. Constant tension over the fickle media, for another. Smiling all the time in public, posing for photos with strangers, suffering autograph hunters, being surrounded, squeezed out of breathing space. Does all this bother A. Hariharan, the south Indian singer who’s made it big in the world of ghazal and pop? “Hey, I asked for this. I wanted it. No cribbing.” It’s all in the fame game.
A Face In The Crowd – Usha Kini
She has dared to be different in a staid world. Usha Kini, a producer on DD Bangalore, firmly believes that television can make a difference to our lives.
The journey through Cyberspace
The whole world opens up as India hooks up to the information highway.
f you are using the phrase, ‘International Information Superhighway’ and thinking how erudite you sound, forget it. It’s already a no-no, a cliche, a has-been of a catch phrase. How, you blink, did that happen, when you had hardly begun to understand how to spell it? Well, you shouldn’t have blinked.
That’s about how long it takes for a concept to originate, catch on and peter out in cyberspace (soon to be another cliche).
MAD about Madhuri – The making of a phenomenon
Ten years ago, they would never have dared to make their feelings public. Today, however, Farooq Abdullah, T.N. Seshan, Orissa’s poet laureate Sitakanta Mohapatra and, of course, M.F. Husain can get away with publicly declaring their adoration of her. After all, what’s so special about these people? Everyone is in love with Madhuri Dixit.
Shackling a demon – Doctors Of International repute at the global seminar on epilepsy
Epilepsy is no longer the demon it used to be. At the end of a century which saw dramatic improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of this very common human ailment, epileptologists are downplaying epilepsy as a very manageable condition. This was one of the most reassuring meassages that came through at an international seminar on ‘a holistic approach to the management of epilepsy’ held at the Bangalore Children’s Hospital recently.
Checks and Balances – Making Transportation Systems Accountable
In its present form, the consumer protection act does not allow recourse to consumer courts for instances such as these. But if the consumer awakening implies that providers of a service/amenity or product must be accountable for quality to its consumers or purchasers, then surely there is scope to widen the purview of COPRA.
Checks and Balances – Making Transportation Systems Accountable
The Indian consumer movement will come of age only when it is generally accepted that both providers and consumers of a good or service are reciprocally accountable.