MIT Sloan Fellow | Innovator | Entrepreneur | Research Scholar
Breakthrough research by Dr. Ullas S. Kolthur & team of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research on longevity gene. In future, you can be “Ageless”. While the search for elixir of life has captivated human imagination for millennia, researchers around the world have put in efforts to extend healthy lifespan and reduce the burden of morbid… read more »
On March 20th of 2017, 28-year-old Pramila Renjhad and her 3 year old son Pranay were on their way to answer the call of nature. The hungry crouching tiger was waiting his target. The moment she heard the cry of her son from the mouth of the beast of prey, she swooped on tiger without giving a thought. The… read more »
विचार करा कि तुम्ही एकांतात एखादे कृत्य करणार आहात आणि ते करू कि नको याबद्दल तुमच्या मनांत शंका आहे. पाशवी मन म्हणते कर, इथे कोण आहे बघायला. तर दैवी मन सांगत असते नको करुस. तू एक चांगली व्यक्ती आहे. हे तू करू नकोस. स्वामी विवेकानंद सांगतात की अशा प्रसंगी योग्य निणर्य घेणे अतिशय सोपे आहे. १…. read more »
Languages count for Education. Children who study in their mother tongue, learn better and faster, perform well with self confidence, self esteem and classroom engagement. Unfortunately 2.3 billion, nearly 40% of the world’s population lack access to education in their own language.
INK Fellow and linguistic enabler Sunil Khandbahale talks to us on how he feels about INK, his way forward with education, his work with developing platforms to help people bridge language divides and his innovative project, the ‘Kumbhathon’ to help solve challenges during the Kumbhmela event in India. Like he humbly says, “We still have a lot… read more »
Big breakthroughs typically follow a seven-step path: First, no one’s heard of you. Then they’ve heard of you but think you’re nuts. Then they understand your product, but think it has no opportunity. Then they view your product as a toy. Then they see it as an amazing toy. Then they start using it. Then… read more »
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been named the world’s top university for the fifth year in a row by the latest QS World University Rankings with six key indicators: academic reputation; employer reputation; student-to-faculty ratio; citations per faculty; international faculty ratio and international student ratio. I feel glad… read more »
Unesco report states more than 60 million children in India receive little or no formal education It has the highest number of out-of-school students in lower secondary level at 11.1 million. At the upper secondary level, 46.8 million are out of school, while 2.9 million students do not even attend primary school. The report says that… read more »
do you hear your kid saying, “I am bored” especially while away from some sort of screen? Scientists called it Technical Addition. We now know that those iPads, smartphones and Xboxes are a form of digital drug. There’s a reason that the most tech-cautious parents are tech designers and engineers. Steve Jobs was a notoriously… read more »
Sunil Khandbahale Ramesh Raskar John Maragaret Hasit Kajhi at Emerging World MIT Media Lab conference