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The Federal Manifesto

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

Ashwin Mahesh

Jun 15, 20192 min read

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...

Ashwin Mahesh

Sep 5, 20182 min read

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...

Ashwin Mahesh

Apr 18, 20172 min read

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...

Ashwin Mahesh

Jul 18, 20161 min read

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...

Ashwin Mahesh

Jun 19, 20162 min read

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...

Ashwin Mahesh

Oct 13, 20153 min read

Since 2019, I have written a regular column in Deccan Herald on the balance between state, market and society runs once in four weeks. In it, I explore ways in which people can be part of all three, and how we can ensure that each one remains independently important to our imagination of development.
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