Tweak the Make in India Recipe
Tax waivers, subsidies, reimbursement of duties or monetary grants alone can't kick-start manufacturing in India.
Business Today / June 2016
Technologist, public policy researcher, and former journalist
Tax waivers, subsidies, reimbursement of duties or monetary grants alone can't kick-start manufacturing in India.
Business Today / June 2016
Unfortunately, there is no app for reforming a morass in law enforcement or dismantling patriarchy.
GenderIT / May 2016
To travel far and wide is to know the feeling of digging one’s hand into one’s pocket for loose change and finding it in four currencies. Or of setting one’s gadgets and timekeepers to another time zone and forgetting to reset them...
Medium / June 2014
Mobile phones, they said, have changed the nature of business.
EroTICs India/ GenderIT / April 2014
Not only does the presence of fewer women in FOSS mean that increasing numbers of technologies are conceived, designed and implemented without women in mind, but that women who manage to navigate through convoluted entry barriers frequently find themselve
Deep Dives -- Medium / November 2015
This is the third in a series of posts reporting on the day-long “Tangled, Like Wool” meeting held in New Delhi in January 2014.
EroTICs India/ GenderIT / March 2014
If you live in Nithari, chances are that the children of the labourers who built your new apartment, of the rickshaw puller who ferries you home from the nearest metro station, and of the housemaid who lives in the nearby basti, are quietly learning to pr
Tech2 / December 2012
A look at some online spaces to examine amateur porn in terms of voyeurism, exhibitionism, privacy, consent, gendered violence, and censorship.
EroTICs India / November 2013
By launching the National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) portal‒a free online repository of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) courseware‒the government has taken a significant step towards widening and improvi
Economic and Political Weekly / September 2013
In the Savita Bhabhi cartoon series, the lonely and sex-deprived housewife unabashedly goes about seeking gratification, occasionally saving the country while she is at it. Her wings were clipped by a blanket block imposed by the Department of Telecommuni
EroTICs India / January 2014
The transition from an online to offline relationship is the trickiest to navigate when perfect strangers are involved.
EroTICs India/ GenderIT / April 2014
In light of the legal, religious, and political contexts in which sexual minorities, activists and people in professions such as pornography and sex work operate, the Internet provides a viable avenue to network, communicate, express, advocate, research,
EroTICs India/ GenderIT / May 2014
A look at Mumbai Police's newly launched social media lab
The Hoot / March 2013
Rohini Lakshané introduces us to Jaltara, an innovative eco-friendly water purification system to help bring safe, drinkable water to people.
The Alternative / September 2013
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