Hello, and welcome!

More than sixty years after Independence, we are unable to assure millions of our citizens access to the most basic amenities, and reasonable hope for a better economic future. There are systematic political, administrative and socio-economic reasons for this failure, and we must recognise them, and work to overcome them.

Traditional, representative democracy is simply too slow to respond to today's challenges; what we need instead a participatory alternative that is focused on solving public problems. We must work together - in debating new ideas, technology development, planning, media, public administration, and many other areas - to build this new democracy, so that it is not only a form of government for the people and of the people, but also by the people.

I invite you to join me in this collaboration. Please browse through this web site to learn about me and my work. I regularly engage in public chats on my Facebook profile (ashwin.mahesh), and I invite you to join me there.