Daily Archives: January 6, 2015

Digital Inclusion: What Kenya Did and India Can

A slow descent along Kenya’s Western rift valley brings the faint outlines of Gakawa into view. The small Masai community in this lowland flanked by mountains had no electricity or phone lines. With hardly any rain, this was no place for cash crops. Even so, farmers did manage to grow potatoes and a little maize…

‘Indian thought is very hospitable for human rights’

The 89th edition of the Indian Philosophical Congress (IPC) was inaugurated at the newly-constructed Adikavi Nannaya University campus, Velugubanda village on the outskirts of Rajahmundry. About 150 philosophers, scholars, teachers and students from across the country are participating in the conference to exchange views on history of philosophy, logic and scientific method, metaphysics and epistemology,…