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Ashwin Mahesh
  • Jun 15, 2019
  • 2 min

The Federal Manifesto

1. Federalism must be a first principle of organising administration, resources, responsibilities, powers, etc. between different levels...

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Ashwin Mahesh
  • Sep 5, 2018
  • 2 min

Carpenters can't fix your leaks

If there's a leak in the water line in your building, you'll call the plumber. You won't call the carpenter and hope that by a...

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Ashwin Mahesh
  • Apr 18, 2017
  • 2 min

Swaraj in action

If swaraj is the USP of new politics, then how can we implement it meaningfully, so that individual citizens and communities feel...

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Ashwin Mahesh
  • Jul 18, 2016
  • 1 min

Development is urban, formal and industrial.

The contours of development include higher levels of urbanisation, a shift towards more industry, and integration with formal aspects of...

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Ashwin Mahesh
  • Jun 19, 2016
  • 2 min

With the government, within the government, and as the government.

Over the last two years I have written extensively about the emerging new idea of governance around the world. Historically in...

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Ashwin Mahesh
  • Oct 13, 2015
  • 3 min

A new arthashastra

We need a new arthashastra. The conventional view of this treatise is that it a manifesto for kingship. But equally it is a manifesto for...

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Ashwin Mahesh
  • Aug 29, 2015
  • 3 min

Keep it local, keep it accountable

Who should run the government schools in the city - the Education department of the state government, or the BBMP? Who should run the...

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Ashwin Mahesh
  • Aug 23, 2015
  • 2 min

A bankable truth

Banks make profits by taking depositors' money and lending it to borrowers. For a very long time, public sector banks' deposit rates were...

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Ashwin Mahesh
  • Aug 3, 2015
  • 5 min

The President's turn

Looking back at the struggle to improve governance in Bengaluru, it is painful to see how many opportunities we have missed. Each time,...

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Ashwin Mahesh
  • Jul 10, 2015
  • 1 min

The whole state is criminalised

What Vyapam tells us is that the whole state is criminalised. It is true in every state. After all, we are fighting the exact same scam...

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Ashwin Mahesh
  • Jun 17, 2015
  • 2 min

Why don't ALL schools do what the BEST ones do?

Why don't ALL schools do what the BEST schools do? It seems quite straightforward. At least, why don't all the public schools do what the...

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Ashwin Mahesh
  • May 30, 2015
  • 3 min

Promote the principle, not the program

There are two or three ideas which, if the government embraces, we can easily have a great run of economy and society. (1) Promote the...

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Ashwin Mahesh
  • Apr 17, 2015
  • 2 min

Is decentralisation the way ahead?

"Can everyone lead?" The question can seem like a contradiction in terms, but increasingly around the world, people are asking whether...

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Ashwin Mahesh
  • Oct 30, 2014
  • 3 min

The publicly managed city

Even a cursory look at some of the problems in urban governance will reveal that the current structure of public administration and...

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Ashwin Mahesh
  • Aug 20, 2014
  • 4 min

The accumulation of opportunity

For a few months in 2000, I used to live in Hampton, Virginia - original home of the great space missions of NASA. But apart from this,...

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Ashwin Mahesh
  • Oct 30, 2013
  • 3 min

Seven 4-letter words you can be proud of

About two years ago, I said to a few young people that 'if you do the following seven things EVERY WEEK without fail for the next FULL...

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Ashwin Mahesh
  • Sep 15, 1999
  • 3 min

School's out, life's in.

Of all the things I treasure about my education, I value most what Dr.Anjeneya Swamy taught me in one course at B-school. He is a small...

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Ashwin Mahesh
  • Jan 15, 1999
  • 7 min

The promise of a different life

Thirty three years ago, in the spring of 1970, my mother and father took their infant son to the Christian Medical College Hospital in...

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