Ramesh

JNNURM 2.0 - The first step is to make cities relevant, moving the locus of debate away from chandeliered conference rooms. Compared to the somnolence of the preceding decades, India’s urban narrative has come alive over the past five years. Today, most policymakers accept that urbanisation is a big challenge.

Read on about the new challenges facing the JNNURM in the years ahead.

Have you paid a bribe? – “Day-to-day corruption is eating away at people's ability to live life in a normal way.It has become so much a part of day-to-day life in India that everybody is in some sense either a perpetrator or a victim or a beneficiary…”

Read an interview of Ramesh Ramanthan in Qn, published by Yale University.

What is our original purpose?

There is a powerful concept in Mathematics called the "Mobius Strip". The experiment to understand this is fair straight forward: take a strip of paper of the approximate dimensions of a 12-inch scale. Bring the ends tougher to form a ring. This shape has two surfaces, one on the inside of the ring. Repeat this exercise, except twist one end of the paper before bringin it to meet the other end. This new structure has an astonishing property: it has only one surface. No matter where you begin on the surface of the paper, you end back there.

What does this have to do with the role of civil society in a democracy? Find out here: