How Digitalization is Driving Growth Hubs in India
How tech-driven innovation and data-enabled decision-making are not only streamlining operations across sectors, but also unlocking new avenues for economic competitiveness and sustainable urban development.
Cities As Growth Hubs: From Import Substitution to Import Replacement
Understanding India's shift from import substitution policies to Jane Jacobs' import-replacement model, highlighting cities like Venice, Tokyo and Hyderabad as key examples of hubs driving local production, innovation, and regional economic growth.
What is the Essence of Meditation
Explore how meditation refines attention, selecting sensory signals and thoughts for conscious processing, and how this practice clears the mind, fostering clarity and a harmonious state free from conflict.
Working with Politicians
Building trust and maintaining effective communication with politicians are crucial for navigating complex relationships. By focusing on shared interests and fostering transparency and respect, it’s possible to achieve collaborative and ethical solutions.
Tackling Increasing Air Pollution in Hyderabad
How Hyderabad can use a comprehensive approach using IoT and AI-driven real-time monitoring, supported by local government teams, to offer an effective response to track and mitigate pollution levels citywide.
Handling Climate Driven Health Risks in Indian Cities
How Indian cities can tackle the rising health risks driven by climate change, from innovative policy measures to community-based resilience strategies.
Hourglass Leadership Pathway for Civil Servants
How civil/public servants can use mental models to add value to their professional experiences, reasoning, decision-making and influence their interactions with others
The Emerging Face of Urban India
A historical look at India's trade development, the contemporary urban growth, and how future planning should anticipate changes in land use, building regulations, and service requirements.
Dual Approach to Civil Service Satisfaction: Why Wanting and Liking Postings Matters
Postings play a crucial role in the careers and lives of civil servants. In my latest article, I look at a dual approach that can be used to measure professional satisfaction.
A Syncretic Pathway to Urban Rejuvenation
A look at the push towards modernizing Indian cities and what the country can learn from other countries that have traversed the 'high modern' route.
How City Development Contributes to Heat Stress
While global factors are contributing to heat wave conditions in India, here’s a look at how the built city environment is intensifying the heat stress.
Uttarakhand: Techniques to Manage Traffic and Crowds
An integrated approach for transport, land-use, and infrastructure to overcome major operational issues that comes with fragmented planning to manage traffic and crowds.
Taking Direct Benefits Transfer to The Next Level
With direct benefits transfer’s (DBT) popularity in India, here’s next steps to design an upgraded form - DBT 2.0 - where its full potential is realized.
The Changing Nature of a Civil Servant's Job
How to adapt to the changing role of civil servants, particularly the IAS, as it expands beyond revenue collection, coordination, maintenance of order, and quasi-judicial work - to being called upon to deal more and more with complex changes.
A Systems Approach to Urban Development
How to adapt to the changing role of civil servants, particularly the IAS, as it expands beyond revenue collection, coordination, maintenance of order, and quasi-judicial work - to being called upon to deal more and more with complex changes.
How Mental Models Add Value to Civil Servants’ Experiences
How organizing experiences on a network of mental models empowers civil servants to accurately grasp reality and make predictions, thus ensuring better policy design and more effective implementation.
Bespoke Learning: Using AI to Upscale Quality Education
How digital technology buttressed by AI has the potential to empower teachers to deliver state-of-the-art individualized learning to students.
SHGs: Bridging Social Capital for Livelihood Improvement
Strategic approaches to bridge social capital to enable India’s self-help groups (SHGs) to improve lives for income enhancement opportunities.
Understanding ‘The Wonder that is India’
Exploring the zeitgeist underway that has re-ignited the process of understanding information and the educational process to make India a wonder again.