It is 4pm on 23 December 2012.
And I continue to struggle to complete my list of 50 new ways of doing things. But all hope is not lost as yet, since I was able to think of another 11 additions to my earlier lists of 10 and 14:
25. (and this is in the context of the increasing reports of eve-teasing, stalking and molestation of women in India) – can we develop and provide all women with a spray that can instantly turn off sexual desires in men? Perhaps this could even be a powerful stink-perfume or a powerful itch-inducing perfume? So exit pepper sparays enter itch sprays and stink sprays.
26. can all pathological laboratories invest (or perhaps get sponsorships from healthcare companies) in self-help digital kiosks that waiting customers can use to know more about lifestyle diseases, and how to understand the lab reports and what questions they can ask their doctors about treatment and cure? Even pharmacies (retail points for medicines) can offer such kiosk facilities!
27. can all public libraries and public reading rooms be mandated to assign a part of their space for voluntary literacy programmes, voluntary math-literacy programmes and voluntary language coaching programmes so that the impact of such programmes and subsequent use of the libraries are better?
28. can consumer gadget companies such as those selling new-generations of refrigerators, televisions, computers and mobile phones run a free weekend (physical as well as on-line) awareness workshops for consumers on how to understand, choose and use such gadgets efficiently and how to respond when performance problems / incidents are encountered?
29. why can’t companies producing milk and dairy products that use milk-deliver boys to deliver milk satchets daily to millions of customers in cities such as Mumbai, also deliver packaged and safe drinking water (in satchets or bottles) at costs that should be much lower that what is now available in the market in the branded water segment?
30. Public-Private Partnerhips in community policing, based on training and certification provided by police academies and human resources provided by housing societies.
31. Mandating a certain percentage of energy re-chargers of electronic gadgets to use renewable-energy based power-sources (such as solar energy).
32. Review and (doing away) with by the need by various agencies, to collect and store self-attested photocopies of identity documents from customers.
33. Delinking jobs from academic qualifications, except for those jobs in academia and research. Encourage a system of linking jobs with vocational qualifications from professional bodies.
34. Can movie goers take a financial stake in individual movie productions and get fair returns for the funds that they provide, besides getting to enjoy their movies? As an extension, can we have a system of a box-office exchange, where movies are traded for a minimum period of 3 months upto its release (akin to an IPO) and a maximum period of 12 months (going my the term of the longest box-office run).
Hope you are having a great weekend.
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