RoundTable on tribal health in IIT, Mumbai on 11.08.2025. Caught up with some old NGO friends Mittali (now collector Nandurbar) , Meenal - now CEO Jalgaon and 4 other young CEOs of Zila Parishad. C-TARA Fellows and students were there of course.Enjoyed making some candid, yet humourous, remarks at the National Conference on Monitoring, Evaluation & learning 2024, 2-3 May 2024Bringing Telangana and Nagaland councils together, 2024Chairing the review meeting of State Councils of Science and Technology at IIT Delhi , 2024Chairing the review meeting of State Councils of Science and Technology at IIT Delhi , 2024With Prof Abhay Karandikar, Secretary DST and other Expert Committee members for release of a compendium of technologies successfully developed by young scientists. (8 Nov 2023) Prof Karandikar was earlier the Dean Faculty Affairs at IIT Bombay (he used to approve my tours and leave) and then became Director IIT Kanpur. It was good to meet him again.With Posaramma who still prefers to have wages under MGNREGA and not a 'dole' - and tells it to the Chairman of the MGNREGA Award committeeAt Monterey Bay in CaliforniaSrishti getting her LLM at University of Notre DameAnustubh and Lauren finally saying Kubul Hai ☺In Moti Bag (Saurabh Garg and Jugal Mohapatra are recognisable!)
