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I am contesting – Councillor for Kottivakkam 9 Oct 2011 | 02:48 am
After many years working in the social space, I took the plunge and I am contesting for the post of Councillor, Kottivakkam. We have done a lot of good work at Chennai City Connect. I figured I could ...
Smart official – smart solution 16 Jan 2011 | 01:31 am
Here is an interesting thing one of my bureaucrat friend did recently. A smart person (as most officials seem to be) he collected the relevant data and used it smartly. It is not unusual for public a...
Open data – crowd solving city problems 16 Jan 2011 | 01:12 am
Just to add a point about open data and connect it to my previous post on MTC. Look at Wikipedia and the like. Lots have been written on crowd sourcing, open source etc. I have been mentioning this t...
Confusing bus routes of Chennai – GPS info 16 Jan 2011 | 12:48 am
My friend Arun Ganesh has done a lot of work on bus routes and setting up websites to make it easier to navigate Chennai in a bus. Check out Chennai volvo routes and timings. But does bus routes and ...
Try this – Music, Rolling Stone, YouTube 14 Jan 2011 | 11:32 pm
Going website to website I ended up at Rolling Stone magazine. There I discovered the 100 Greatest Singers collect. Went through the list, and checked out some of the singers and their songs on youtub...
Energy subsidies – Burn it 9 Jan 2011 | 01:09 am
One my pet peeves is indirect subsidies. They distort the economy and ruin the environment. It is nothing but robbing Paul to pay Peter. But since Peter also gets robbed to pay Paul, no one really ben...
Vision 2011 8 Jan 2011 | 01:59 am
My article Vision 2011 in Times Property Chennai edition of Times of India. I will be writing a weekly Sat column on infrastructure with examples around the world.
Relevant even today … in India 8 Jan 2011 | 01:43 am
Listening to historian Ron Chernow talk about Alexander Hamilton (the clash of two visions – rural vs urban to put it simplistically) and the America of his times is like listening to conversation in ...
Benchmark Globally – my article in Businessworld 8 Jan 2011 | 01:27 am
Benchmark Globally City expert Raj Cherubal on why Chennai should set the bar even higher. To improve, Chennai has to learn from cities such as Paris, Tokyo, and others The mayor of chennai, M. Subr...
Pakistani Martin Luther King 7 Jan 2011 | 11:54 pm
Interesting what a google chat with my friend Daniel does. He sent me the following video, lamenting “how would our leaders react to something like this?” My take on great leaders is that national cr...
