India growing as an urban nation rapidly
What brought me to Tamil Nadu, Madurai, is a smokeless chula project, in collaboration with C. K. Prahalad
Findings of the recent report on urban poverty in India
Dharavi issue is an example of how the Government in Maharashtra is abandoning what's native in favour of foreign models
What Mumbai is doing is what the US did, a better example is in Brazil
Effective city building depends on tailoring solutions to each neighbourhood, rather than borrowing outside models
Indian cities are searching for the magic bullet, abandoning the heritage
Bangalore has lost its way
Big corporate campuses are examples of monumentalism
Different types of corporate leader personalities in India
NURM is an example of how India is getting itself organised to play the game of catch-up
How the US concept of 'urban renewal' is about destroying communities built by poor migrants
Products rejected in the home market are getting imported into India
What are the indigenous models of urbanism in India -- Temple city, Chowk, Mohalla
Infosys campus is the modern walled city
Shopping mall can be perceived as undemocratic, and inward-looking
Slum, a negative labelling by middle-class
Social capital in Dharavi, economic specialisations in Tamil Nadu
How the Thevars have progressed in Madurai
Centrality of family as an economic unit and also a unit of solidarity has led to chain migration
Detailed economic study of Dharavi is required
What is the current status of Dharavi, Mumbai
Observations about Slumdog Millionaire
The world doesn't understand what's happening in India
Author reading his book
How are architects responding to urbanism ideas
My next book -- 'The Ecology of Prosperity'
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