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

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...

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 Keynote Address delivered at the International Conference on Strategic Management: Emerging Economies Perspective examines the challenges and opportunities for Strategic Management Research in an emerging economy context

1. This is a paper where what is unsaid is as much important to me as what is said. Ultimately, I would say it made me think with a hammer, but still left me frustrated. The theory-practice debate has always engaged me as a practicing administrator, but I could hold on fondly to my prejudices...

This paper examines the Risk Management and Contract Design aspects of Public Private Partnerships. Part I begins with the question: How is a public private partnership distinct from public-private interaction over history? From this question, it identifies risk allocation and risk sharing as a...