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Where Good Ideas Come from

Where Good Ideas Come from

In teaching Innovation, I go over many videos, articles, lectures, notes, etc. Students often ask, how do they identify problems to solve, or how to they get ideas. I invariably guide them to this video. There isn’t a fountain of ideas that you can drink from. Its only your hard work and preparation that let good ideas bubble up to you. Certainly as Louis Pasteur noted, chance certainly favors…

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Accept the Right Challenge

We consider our daily engagements with various aspects of the material world as beautiful, bringing us great joy (and sorrow). Consider our desires for ALL things and beings that can be described by our five senses. These temptations ever goad us to aspire more, more and more such ‘beautiful’ material things. Neverendingly. This results in an endless cycle of desires, our machinations to attain…

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Manipal Covid Challenge

Create Something Useful

Announcing Manipal Covid Challenge An Opportunity for all creative minds to get off TikTok, or whatever else you are doing during this Lockdown, and contribute to solving important problems in our society.

Here for details and Registration.

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Mahalasa Narayani Devasthan, Goa

Palki at the Mahalasa Narayani Devasthan, Goa

On every visit to Goa, in addition to visiting our kuladevata, Ramnathi Shanteri Kamakshi in Ponda, I visit a few other nearby temples as well. On this short visit to Goa, a kulavi of the Mahalasa Narayani Devasthan invited me to participate in the Palki on Sunday evening. I am so thankful for the invite and the visit to this beautiful temple.

For a Sunday evening, the temple was packed with…

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Happy New Year 2019

Here’s to an even beautiful New Year.

Meera, Manashi and Arun

This year I want to eat healthier (it is more challenging in Manipal);

Stress less & Run more

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Devotion is ... Flower Market, Dadar

Devotion is … Flower Market, Dadar

Dadar Flower 🌸 Market under the bridge by the Dadar Train Station is one of my favorite places to visit in #Mumbai. It is verily a street photographers paradise. The stall owners are super nice and the flowers are fresh heaped, fragrant and colorful. Loads of #Champae #plumeria (?) delicately woven, melt even the stingiest of heart. I surprised M’s family with a champae stringer.

Entire families…

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Wearable Device Hackathon 2018

Just concluded the biggest, baddest Wearable Device Hackathon evah.

We have over 150 participants from ten different institutions, 25 mentors, 17 volunteers and five judges.

Get ready for a deluge of pics and such.

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Meera with a head full of flowers

Meera with a head full of flowers

At a recent ‘munji’ Meera got an opportunity to have her head decked with this woven flower buds. Those are Jaai buds from a village called Shankarāchārya-pur near Karkala. One of M’s cousins brought those flowers. Another relative spent nearly an hour carefully covering Meera’s hair with the flowers. She was one happy kiddo.

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Grand Challenge Udupi

Innovation must reach the most underprivileged in society. Participate in GrandChallengeUdupi

For Innovation to serve the people and move the country forward, we ultimately need to reach the most underprivileged in our society.  This was exactly our goal when we teamed up with the local government – Udupi District and developed this Grand Challenge. The District officials under the leadership of Deputy Commissioner Smt Priyanka Mary Francis and Assistant Commissioner Shilpa Nag, picked…

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For as long as I can remember, a visit to the Rijksmuseum was on my short list. But for nearly a decade, its was closed for renovations. When it reopened a few years ago we started planning a long trip. We planned an entire day for the Rijksmuseum. Nothing else would do it justice.

While I was ready to scope out every nook and cranny of this magnificiently renovated palace, M&m were true campers and enjoyed the place as well. An important tip I learned over decades of museum visits – take a break in the middle of the day, leave the premises and go elsewhere for a nice lunch. Then you come back refreshed and you can re-see everything again. *grin*

Here Meera was mesmerized by the stunning stained glass wall.

Meera was intrigued by the macho poses of most the militia leaders and never tired of aping them.

Enjoy the gallery

What a beautiful trip to the Rijksmuseum Netherlands For as long as I can remember, a visit to the Rijksmuseum was on my short list.

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Panchavati gets its name from 5 giant banyan trees where Shri Rām exiled. This is #1 Panchavati gets its name from the five giant banyan trees making up the forested area where Shri Rām, Sitā and Lakshman spent a large portion of their exile. This is the first of the five banyan trees situated in front of the Sitā Gufa (Sitā cave) where she spent a lot of time.

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When we were planning a trip to The Netherlands, I was thinking of immersing myself at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, while M was dreaming of the tulips, i.e. the Keukenhof gardens in Lisse, a quick bus ride from Schiphol Airport. Of course we did both, and much more.

It was a bright, cool day in early May. Apparently they have more than 7 million tulips over ~80 acres of well maintained grounds, and they were all in bloom! The colors and fragrances were simply overwhelming. I was close to getting a “Tulip induced migraine!” For a break, we stepped into the gift shop(s) and of course, more tulips.

The buses to the Gardens start right outside Schiphol Airport and I spied many tourists coming straight from their flights with their carry-on bags, on the bus. There were probably a million tourists there and it was difficult to get a shot without a selfie stick in the pic.

We all loved the glory of these beautiful royal buds. I think I have 300 pics of tulips and it was tough to share only a few. If you go to The Netherlands in the Spring, you cannot miss this. Till then enjoy.

Tulip Mania at Keukenhof Tulip Gardens, Lisse, The Netherlands When we were planning a trip to The Netherlands, I was thinking of immersing myself at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, while M was dreaming of the tulips, i.e.

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During a recent holiday in the Netherlands, we got a chance to visit the Industrial Design School of the Technical University of Delft. I was awestruck by their design of their open lobby space and how they had created various nooks and crannies with simply different styles of furniture and lighting. The school building was a reconverted warehouse, so they had maintained the cavernous interiors, high railings and steep metal stairs. Everything on the main floor is movable, and yet a warm work environment.

It was an average Thursday afternoon and you can sense the intensity of the people working. No doubt it’s one of the top design and innovation centers in the world.

Movable bleachers and a bar like atmosphere in the back. The mezzanine creates a nice niche

Long tables in the back for collaborative work

Love the cubicles on the floor. Even though they are in open space, they give a sense of privacy

Chilling

In one of the team rooms

This team was developing a solar water purifier for a village near Bengaluru. India students are likely doing water purification for space travel 😉

Post-its

Even on the glass partitions

Creatives at work. Even the mess on the table seems cool.

More desk spaces of busy creative types

TU Delft – Innovation Starts with Space During a recent holiday in the Netherlands, we got a chance to visit the Industrial Design School of the Technical University of Delft.

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We are doing well

We are doing well

Cherry Blossoms in Keukenhoff Netherlands. Yes, we are doing well and resettled in Manipal India

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Jugaadathon – Improving Healthcare for the Urban Poor We just concluded this fabulous event. Thank you to all the attendees for making this a memorable event.

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She is the newest YouTube sensation! When we go for a walk and Meera sees a cardboard box in someone's trash, she wants it.  

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Amazing talk by Scott Gallowayon Apple, Amazon, Google & Facebook. Scary. Scott Galloway on how this Gang of Four are going to rule the world and destroy jobs everywhere.