All in Unique India
Unpacking the intricate relationship between historical protectionist measures and today's dynamic market forces, urging policymakers to strike a balance between safeguarding domestic industries and embracing global competitiveness and reimagine trade approaches.
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.
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.
An integrated approach for transport, land-use, and infrastructure to overcome major operational issues that comes with fragmented planning to manage traffic and crowds.
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.
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 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.
Strategic approaches to bridge social capital to enable India’s self-help groups (SHGs) to improve lives for income enhancement opportunities.
Exploring the zeitgeist underway that has re-ignited the process of understanding information and the educational process to make India a wonder again.
How the mismatch between operating methods and historic hierarchical structures fails to bring together diverse approaches to decision-making.
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".
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.
Exploring the concept of self through the lenses of yoga, philosophy, quantum physics, and neural science.
Exploring the concept of self through the lenses of yoga, philosophy, quantum physics, and neural science.
As a city planner, I often get asked about the happenings in our cities. Here's a simplified explanation of my responses.
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 do the political executives look for when they post civil servants, the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in particular.
A dual outlook on governance and policy-making while making a case for high level of economic growth possibilities even in oligopolistic markets.
Exploring contemplative science and how two significant ideas that have emerged in recent years define the concept of "Unique India".
