Education for Man Making

December 10, 2017

(Text of the Foreword by Dr. Vinay Sahasrabuddhe to the book by Dr Girish S Bapat, Director of Pune based Jnana Prabodhini. The book, titled “Man-Making: Nurturing Abilities, Motivating the Able” is all about Education as a structured process of Man-Making, which is broadly speaking mentoring, nurturing and cultivating. The book has

Text of Key Note Address - BRICS Conference on Participatory Local Budgeting (PLB) at Kochi, Kerala

November 3, 2016

My Speech at BRICS Conference on ‘Participatory Local Budgeting’ at Kochi on 3rd November 2016

At the outset, let me wholeheartedly welcome the coming together of BRICS nations for discussing a very important and relevant idea of democratic governance at the grassroots. Apart from economic issues, issues of civili

Speech- 20th Triennial Conference of Bangladesh Awami League at Dhaka

October 22, 2016

My speech at 20th Triennial Conference of Bangladesh Awami League at Dhaka on 22nd October 2016

Respected President of the National Council of the largest political party of Bangladesh, Awami League and honourable Prime Minister, daughter of Bangabandgu Jan Netri Shekh Hasina Ji, distinguished office bearers and leaders o

Fighting Multiple Poverties Demand Multi-Sectoral Approach

April, 2016

Lifting India out of poverty could be best done only by Indians, and that too only when they collectively make a resolve. But unfortunately there are many in our country who continue to be blissfully unaware of the challenge of poverty or rather the complexity of the same. And as it happens, there are many, who do not know that they do not know.