India Needs Dynamic Ecosystems for Making Smart Cities Work

I have new article on Smart Cities Initiatives in India published by the CPPR. In India, the cities are still governed by State capitals and National Capital instead of decentralized form of governance to improve for ease of living by all means.

The piece mainly discusses the below issues:

"As part of the smart cities initiatives guidelines, the Union Ministry of Urban Development had notified in September 2016 to create a City-Level Advisory Forum (CLAF) comprising all major stakeholders including elected representatives of that city, local youth, technical experts, associations of taxpayers, residents’ welfare, trade and commerce associations, etc. However, this Forum was not functional until recently and most Smart Cities in the country including Tamil Nadu were created this year or in the last few months only."

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Interesting reading

I have read the following some of the interesting articles and research papers:

1. Silicon Valley star is now teacher in Tamil Nadu, says busy with new start-up — rural school
2. Why rice-eaters are from Venus and others from Mars 
3. "his frequent warnings that ‘governments do not understand the implications of their intervention’, and he would often speak about the vast disconnect between the metropolis and the village, the city and the countryside."
4. Five Factors That Helped Rural India Continue Driving Indian Economy In September
5. "a discredited economic model that undermines the benefits of competitive markets – a model relying on the misguided tryst with socialism that never delivered India’s tryst with destiny."
6. "It is dismaying that opinion makers market Dalit poverty and atrocities more than Dalit professionals competing globally."

Chakravarti Vijayaragavachariar – The Lion from The South!

I have new article in the Spontaneous Order Website of Centre for Civil Society, a classical liberal think tank in India. This is my nineteenth article on forgotten Indian liberal scholars and thinkers whom the left intellectuals were always treated as untouchables for well known reasons. These left leaning thinkers include economists, social scientists, etc. 

I have also published the same article in Tamil Magazine in this month edition here.

Mostly, it is not possible to get publish an article in more than one languages at a time.

"Vijayaraghavachariar supported the non-violent approach publicly. Lord Birkenhead, the Secretary of State of India had once stated that Indians were incapable of drafting their own constitution. Vijayaraghavachariar took up the challenge and prepared the Swaraj Constitution of India (1930). He wanted a strong central government and therefore had proposed a Unitary Constitution."