Impactpreneurs: Social change

Oxymoron as it may have sounded ten years back, now there are businesses that do social good. A lot of them…! But it is still very hard to get standardized information about them to power the ecosystem: connect investor, recruitment and customer gaps. Is there a way to get this information in a fast and scalable way with accuracy?  

Impactpreneurs.com: A community-driven directory of social enterprises 

MIT India Reading Group: Meetings done at MIT India Reading Group since 2008. Know about education, health, energy, innovation and many more topics of interest in India.

Somethoughts

A memristor (out of history) for everyone

Memristor, the fourth passive component, most simply stated is a state-dependent resistance. Till 2012, we didn’t have any simple memristor to play around with in a lab or in your garage. Now we do… We found that simply touching two metal balls makes a memristor! The device was known as coherer 100 years back and it was used to receive radio signals before the invention of diode. Only an Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose had observed the correct electrical properties for the device qualifying it as a memristor.

Our paper on this | Why it is important | JC Bose and his other contributions

Human Dignity

We all are in such situations when we can degrade someone’s dignity without any repercussions. Then also some find human dignity as a hypothetical concept – why is it? Why do some people at some times enjoy degrading human dignity? At others, do it for a purpose...

I stand for human dignity. It starts from the self and extends to the body.

CURE started in 2001 as an initiative against ragging (bullying/hazing in colleges). We have come a long way from a time when ragging was socially acceptable to now, when it is shunned. 

CURE documentary | CURE website