INNOVATION IS SHAPING THE FUTURE OF NEW INDIA
"The best way to be a part of future is to shape it". The National award winning Bollywood movie Padman (2017) , features superstar Akshay Kumar, in which he plays the role of a middle class Indian husband who deeply loves his wife. One fine day, the protagonist (played by Akshay Kumar) finds out that his wife had been using a dirty unhygienic piece of cloth in her mensural days as she was unable to afford expensive pads. This deeply hurts him, being the caring person he was in the movie. And this leads him to innovate an affordable, home made, mensural pad. This invention solves the rural women's problem of safe and affordable mensural hygiene in the movie. Such hundreds of common yet extraordinary stories of Innovation are shaping the future of new India. Innovation is defined as a creative solution that solves a problem reduces cost and adds value. In day to day Indian rhetoric some refer to it as ' Jugaad