Rural India, says a Credit Suisse report, is no longer an agrarian economy whose fortunes are soley dependent upon erratic monsoons. Rather, they are now increasingly tied to the national economic cycle, something they had been largely immune from so far, as it gradually shifts away from agriculture. A decade...
Combination of lantern and stove addresses needs of India's rural poor
An engineer from my undergraduate school IIT Kanpur who also went to the University of Florida has invented a lantern-cum-stove that lights up a small room while cooking food, an intriguing application of "frugal innovation" for the 600 million rural Indians, many of whom don't have access to reliable electric...