Anil Gupta: India's hidden hotbeds of invention

http://www.ted.com Anil Gupta is on the hunt for the developing world's unsung inventors -- indigenous entrepreneurs whose ingenuity, hidden by poverty, could change many people's lives. He shows how the Honey Bee network helps them build the connections they need -- and gain the recognition they deserve.

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[tatapudi]

@imperiallion

decades back, a man wearing just a dhoti lead a nation over a nation of tuxedos... mind matters and not clothes...

and yes, we are APU BASTARDS, and we are proud of it sir...

may i suggest, pls respect others to earn their respect...

[Cradle2Venus]

@imperiallion TED is not American. YouTube is accessible worldwide.

I recommend getting a real education. You clearly know nothing outside your own back yard and from your comments you care nothing for others unless it benefits you. YOU and people like you are exactly why these countries ARE third world. Keep shopping at Wal-Mart - the largest trading partner with China - while you somehow take pride in the nothingness which is USA.

[crudhousefull]

@imperiallion Mmmm...another candidate for the release of personal details. Let's see what you say when we know who you are and where you live. You have a couple of days to try to erase your crap from the digital trail...cause when it's released, it's released. Alexandra Wallace all over again

[DeepakPawndU]

@imperiallion Fucking ugly pricks. ..you make me sick.

[bgupta2001]

souls ,are taken under earth .please request you to request make bring back all the souls ,every molecules back on earth .and make good dissison to save every one . request to give death panality for me,mother ,and father ,and even to my two brothers,and one sister to soul ,grand soul ,kundaliy , by giving or injecting poision ( which science & scientits can produce ) and ( shown in the "dasavataram "tamil & hindi india movie )burn infront of everyone on the earth only .

[tjxkid]

Open Source my friends

[ankitcynical]

I have an absolute honour of working under Prof. Anil Gupta at Indian Institute of Management, Ahemdabad. The guy is a genious. Totally commited to the cause of uplifting people. Can you imagine at such a age he works for 20 hours ina day. Everyday you can find him talking to fruit vendors, tea makers and all around the campus listening to there problem and suggesting solutions. Respect!

[aalexandra63]

You clearly know nothing outside your own back yard and from your comments you care nothing for others unless it benefits you. He is doing nothing for innovators.

[akalchhe]

@Achintyanath

The fault is not of the Narmada Dam project but that of corruption that permeates Indian society. I still stick to my opinion about the westerners motives for obstructing the building of the dam.. If you had seen the programme on television, you would have felt the same.We should have more sensitivity to our own people in India and also know that outsiders do not have any interest in development of India. They use intelligent ways of obstructing progress, disguised as doing good.

[Achintyanath]

@akalchhe

I am an Indian and I do not support Narmada dam. It has benefitted only the State of Gujarat and destroyed thousands of acres of green forests in Madhya Pradesh. Even in Gujarat it has destroyed fertile farmland and displaced hundreds of farmers with nowhere to go.

Corruption in payment of compensation ensured that very few people got anything.

The environmental and social cost of Narmada dam is far more than the benefit to a few rich villagers of Gujarat.

[akalchhe]

insensitivity of people to other people's difficulty well illustrasted by a few westerners who tried to stop buliding of narmada dam in India which would have brought water to villagers so they would not have to travel a mile everyday. One insensitive lady said that it would spoil the scenery, ie seeing women with utensils on theri head walking to collect water.This was years back