By our political desk, Ahmedabad, November, 2011 India's man of grass root innovations movement, IIM Ahmedabad professor Dr. Anil Gupta posted words of appreciation and advise for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Facebook. In reference to Narendra Modi's blog post on need to encourage innovative teaching practices, IIMA's one of the most honorable and publicly known faces professor Anil Gupta said on Facebook, "excellent initiative of recognizing innovative teachers, b...Read More

Jiangsu Province, China Can shoes be made out of newspaper? Oh yes, you need to watch this video featuring a young chinese designer Yang Guang who recycles old newspapers into handmade fashionable shoes. Yang Guang, a university student from Nanjing City in Jiangsu Province who employs more than 200 workers also sells such shoes in the U.S. and Europe. There's no leather in such shoes and flexible cotton thread is used along with the folded newspaper strips as main materi...Read More

Manila, Philippines It's a story of a wonderful innovative project called 'A Liter of Light Project'. In the slums of Manila, this innovative project is shedding light on the city's dim and dreary shanties by just using plastic bottle, water and bleach. Very interesting video that can spread this idea further and surely can be replicated in Indian slums. Eco-entrepreneur Illac Diaz who is behind the project explains how it works. He says, when placed snugly into a purpose-bu...Read More