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.
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.
Getting a Grip on Traffic Congestion in Indian Cities
Historical and contemporary views and solutions on managing traffic congestions in India.
A Way to Rebuild Life After Retirement
Drawing on personal experiences, this article looks at ways of rebuilding your life after retirement.
Promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Improve Police Work
Exploring how AI-driven policing holds significant potential for enhancing law enforcement in India, particularly in crime prevention.
Refurbishing Heat Islands in Indian Cities
Drawing on examples worldwide and planning practices, like those established by Scottish urban planner Patrick Geddes, here are some ways to refurbish the existing urban environment in Indian cities to address the issue of "heat islands".