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.
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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.
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.
Why Decision Paralysis Happens in the Civil Services
How the mismatch between operating methods and historic hierarchical structures fails to bring together diverse approaches to decision-making.
Finding a Way Out: Monsoon Flooding in Cities
The "new normal" is constantly changing, marked by continuous escalation and extreme events. Confronted with this reality, our challenge is to address this "new abnormal".
Tackling The Diabetes Explosion In India
Focusing on increasing the physical activity levels of individuals requires interventions at the population level and this means an Indian way of imagining, building, and running our cities.
How Civil Servants Can Make Meetings More Result-Oriented
Exploring the concept of self through the lenses of yoga, philosophy, quantum physics, and neural science.
Yoga, the Noble Prize, and the Idea of ‘One’
Exploring the concept of self through the lenses of yoga, philosophy, quantum physics, and neural science.
What's Happening to Indian Cities?
As a city planner, I often get asked about the happenings in our cities. Here's a simplified explanation of my responses.
What is the Colonial Baggage in the Civil Services?
Colonialism continues to shape the workings of the civil services in India. This article explores the origins of the source of such colonial influences.
What Determines Officers’ Postings?
What do the political executives look for when they post civil servants, the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in particular.
Is Oligopoly Always Bad?
A dual outlook on governance and policy-making while making a case for high level of economic growth possibilities even in oligopolistic markets.
What are the Two Ideas of India?
Exploring contemplative science and how two significant ideas that have emerged in recent years define the concept of "Unique India".