Bangalore city saw unprecedented growth in the 1980s and 90s, in size, population and global importance. This derived chiefly from its positioning as a centre for Information Technology and associated industries. Even as the world watched this amazing growth in wonder, Bangalore's own response...

Affordable housing is a problem that many countries are taking stock of, world over. In India, the problem is much more stark with an estimated shortage of around 18 million houses, with 99% of this in the economically weaker sections of society. This paper sets out the definitions of affordable...

A National Policy on Rental Housing was presented as a simulation exercise to senior Indian Administrative Service Officers in the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration. It details the first steps towards evolving a rental housing framework in India

This presentation was my Chief Guest Address delivered at Corridors, City Regions and Cities in Urban and Regional Development - An International Seminar By School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada. Date: 22nd November, 2013. I briefly profile the city, locating Bangalore in the...

This article focuses on an aspect of discrimination peculiar to India, caste-based discrimination, using the debate on caste-based census to illustrate the relationship between affirmative action policy and statistics. We begin by describing how discriminatory practices are set within the...

A brief overview of Business-Government interface in India for a multi-disciplinary group of scholars from Italy. It presents the various hats government wears, and traces the course of the government's role in the economic history of the nation

This is a brief note on a research paper I am working on at present. Comments are welcome. Introduction. Land Acquisition for major economic projects has shot to national attention lately capturing media space and invading the language of informed discourse. Suddenly the votaries of a liberal...

The paper is an argument for a new approach to electoral reform in India. A detailing of what ails Indian elections is followed by a summary of reform initiatives so far. The paper then argues that while reform efforts so far have focused on supply side regulation, that is, laying down minimum...