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Mumbai - A city of maximum contrasts |
For long we have been fed lies. Mumbai has no scarcity of houses and the key to the truth lies in using digital technology to unlock the city's housing potential.
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| Why should I vote? |
| 18 January 2012 |
| Has Indian democracy failed its people? Maybe it is time for all of us to introspect and answer this question in a genuine manner. |
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| Moving People, Not Cars - Creating Sustainable Transport in Mumbai |
| 2 January 2012 |
| The possibilities of establishing The ORF-RLS seminar on 'Creating Sustainable Transport in Mumbai' focussed on some key topics of sustainable transport like decongestion of roads, equitable road usage, encouraging people to use public transport, private vehicle ownership, traffic management, parking issues and concerns, etc. |
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| India's Silent War |
| 26 December 2011 |
| It's now a battle to the finish. The amazing diversity of the digital world is seen as a threat by a coterie of bureaucrats who are going all out to annihilate it. |
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| The tyranny of the written word |
| 19 November 2011 |
| Digital technologies have the potential to annihilate the rich sources of oral history. It is time that we stopped looking at digital technology with rose-tinted glasses. |
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| Creating an Inclusive Mumbai |
| 10 October 2011 |
| Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and the Berlin-based Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS), one of Germany's largest political education institution, jointly organised a day-long roundtable conference on 'Breaking Silos: Creating an Inclusive Mumbai' in Mumbai. |
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| Goodbye money. Nice knowing you |
| 03 October 2011 |
| Radical transformation in governance can only begin when we are pushed to the wall and have no other option but to take the monster head on |
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| Lokpal and Governance |
| 15 September 2011 |
| The crucial question is this: Is it time to look beyond institutions, which are supposed to repositories of our trust but routinely betray them, and look at means of self governance? |
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| The great Indian strangulation trick |
| 20 July 2011 |
| In a stratagem that would make Sun Tzu proud, the government first velvet-gloved an iron fist and then clamped down hard on digital freedom and enterprise. |
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| De-institutionalise urban planning |
| 09 June 2011 |
| Mumbai today has a plethora of institutions - BMC, MMRDA, MSRDC, MVRC, etc. At last count, there were 23 institutions directly or indirectly 'planning' for Mumbaikars. There is an urgent need to 'de-institutionalise' urban planning. |
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| Making Mithi, A River Again |
| 20 May 2011 |
| An ORF study report on the neglect of the Mumbai river Mithi, and how it can be reclaimed effectively was jointly released by Mr. Suresh Prabhu, former Union Minister of Environment and Forests, and Mr. Rajendra Singh, the Ramon Magsaysay Award winner and a noted water activist. |
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| Mumbai's Second Airport: It's Time To Think Big |
| 29 September 2010 |
| Mumbai still continues to enjoy its position as the country's commercial capital thanks largely to the infrastructure advantage it is blessed with, which was progressively built since the days of the British Raj keeping in mind the future expansion of the city as India's trade and business hub. |
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| Post 26/11, how do we deal with Pakistan? |
| Vikram Sood |
| 28 January 2009 |
| It may be state policy in Pakistan to use jehad as a deadly instrument of foreign policy and as a force equaliser against the superior Indian military but then that state has the manpower willing to act as its emissaries in this bloody game virtually sure that they will die. |
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| Mumbai Attacks: A Call to Look Within |
| Samir Saran |
| 23 January 2009 |
| The major flaw with placing the blame entirely on Pakistan is the premise that Pakistan or its proxy warriors could have executed any of these outrageous acts in the absence serious internal vulnerabilities of the Indian nation |
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| Pakistan dimension in Mumbai attack |
| General (Retd) V P Malik |
| 16 December 2008 |
| That the Mumbai attack originated from Pakistan is not in doubt. But blaming radical outfits like the LET and JEM only for this incident would not be correct. |
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| Mumbai under attack |
| Vikram Sood |
| 28 November 2008 |
| Terror now stalks the country. As one watched the TV screens on the night of November 26 it seemed a re-run of past terrorist incidents in India. Yet these were different. India has not seen a terrorist attack of this kind where terrorists have stormed a hotel, taken people hostage |
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