Dear goanet,
rajendra kakodkar (rskakod...@yahoo.co.in) has sent you an article from The
Economist online
Questions for Santosh Ostwal
Nov 28th 1999
SANTOSH OSTWAL, husband and father of two, lost his apartment in 2001 after
quitting his job in Pune to solve an engineering problem he’d been thinking
about for twenty years. Today his solution – a mobile-phone adaptation that
triggers irrigation pumps remotely – is saving water in India and helping
more than 10,000 farmers avoid several taxing, dangerous long walks a day. I
talked to Mr Santosh for a podcast earlier this year, but it’s worth
digging back into the transcript now to help explain the Indian concept of
jugaad, an inspired kind of duct-taped ingenuity that employs only the tools
at hand.
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