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Working for improving the economic status of poor and helping the farming community through intervention of appropriate ICT.

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Problem: At present, most of us(spending long hours in browsing all types of news forgetting the food is getting burnt in the cooker, men missing morning walks, exercises, appointments, and youth spending time in visiting crap sites), children (watch long hours of games). This needs to be arrested / controlled.

Proposal: Can we develop a software to warn a user of PC about long hours of its use with a provision to indicate the time spent before it with provision for automatic shut down?
This will help those who simply waste their time in front of a PC browsing sites which are worthless and little knowing how much time they have wasted. It will function like a diary so that at the end of a period, the user will know the total time spent before a PC and do some conscience cleaning. For children, the parents can fix the time upto which their children can sit before a PC for games etc., so that the PC can shut down on its own.

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  A comment on Talk: Nirmalya Kumar: India's invisible innovation

  Aug 1 2012: Innovation for improving the pathetic living conditions of vast majority of indians who live in squalor, without a toilet in their homes is what is required for India. Use of technology and skill for R &Ds which go in reducing cost of production, process or that improves the bottomline of a corporate is what is going on as innovation in the western world. One need not be innovative. But, we need creative solutions to the problems of poor in India facing.

• A reply on Talk: Nirmalya Kumar: India's invisible innovation

  Aug 1 2012: What sir, where is 1.2 billion and where is 120 billion? The earth (bhoomi matha) will cave in if it were to support 120 billion.

• A comment on Talk: Baba Shiv: Sometimes it's good to give up the driver's seat

  Aug 1 2012: It might have worked in Baba's case. If we read the life story of Lance Armstrong, the great american cyclist and who had contracted three types of cancer but took the decision in his hands and won the battle in a record one year or so and went on to win 'Tour de France' race twice thereafter, one will understand how second opinions, most appropriate medication had helped him to lead a normal life now. . In the present state of affairs of medical services in places like India where it is run as a money spinner with reckless pathological tests and medicines imposed on innocent people, it is better to be in the driver's seat at least by those who can think and decide.
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  A comment on Talk: Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement

  Nov 7 2011: A number of those who commented have taken pains to find all that is wrong in the speech. Let us remember 'the Star Fish Story'. One day, a small boy was found throwing back one star fish after another in to the sea. A passer by watching the proceedings of the boy asked him for the reason for his action. The boy replied that he was trying to throw back as many star fish as possible before the sun rises up with tides lowering. The passerby wondered and said that with miles of miles of beach with star fish strewn all along and it will not make any difference by the action of the boy. The boy took a star fish and threw it back in to the sea and said 'I made the difference to that one' and moved to picked up another. So, if Mr Roy has brought cheers to even one poor, let us see if we can match his,