JUGAAD: Sustainable & Scalable Solutions?
I don’t know how many can relate but almost every middle-income Indian household will have a chair, a table, or any piece of furniture with a folded newspaper crushed under one of its feet to prevent it from tumbling. We Indians have a very beautiful word associated to it. No prize for guessing it, the word is ‘ JUGAAD ’. Crudely derived from Sanskrit, ‘Jugaad’ is a concept well understood as an ‘Indian hack’. There are many synonyms for the word, but a simple definition of ‘Jugaad’ is a ‘ non-conventional innovative fix to any problem with limited available resources' . It is a short-term solution, with minimal effort and an idea to use what is available. A concept familiar to each Indian family, where it comes unknowingly to us as an antidote to our complex problems. Now the question is: Is Jugaad Sustainable? Sustainability is a vast topic with multiple variations, and it might be a dare to compare sustainability with Jugaad because by the shear definition sustainability i...