Abstract: Housing is a need, a measure of wealth, a means of income, a modicum of privacy and provider of security, to any individual, across the economic spectrum. Closer home India has the world’s largest youth population comprising millennials and Gen Z. This discussion is therefore meaningful to ensure India addresses the needs of its …
Gen ‘Nexts’ – Delving into Their Home Buying Psyche Read More »
India’s infrastructure investment targets for creation of world class assets are ambitious. To reach the goal of becoming a $ 5 trillion economy, $1.4 trillion will need to be invested in creation of physical assets. Who would be called upon to construct these large- scale infrastructure assets? EPC companies of course! TQM, IPD, BIM, Lean …
Biomimicry or biomimetics is as deep as it is extensive in its scope, it is micro, as it is macro in its application. It begins as a philosophy and manifests as a creation. Driving through the streets of busy commercial districts of a megapolis, I come across names of towers like Hyperion, Helios, Icarus and …
Oh! To Live Again Using Nature to Rethink, Reorganise Human Settlements Read More »
(The Budget 2021-22 blog is published in tandem with the beginning of India’s new financial year 2021-22) FM Nirmala Sitharaman delivers one of India’s best budgets of all time Nirmala Sitharaman has had to wait for two prior budgets and an unprecedented crisis to sweep the markets and the nation off its feet. Throughout history …
The Lady in the House Has Nailed It, With Vision and Street Savvy! Read More »
The first year of the new decade has arrived with sobering events that has made the whole world sit up and take cognizance. With the colossal adverse effects this is having on the world’s economic health, it would be worthwhile to intuit a perspective on the shape of things to come, sooner than later. In …
As the annual ritual called International Women’s Day comes upon us fast and furiously, I struggled with the cynical dilemma of whether ‘to- write- or- not- to- write -one-more-piece-on-women’ akin to the ‘to- be- or-not- to- be’ types. Mercifully it sorted itself out, on all counts. I realised that I Write… (professionally), I Think (Descarte), …
Fervid Feelings about Women Leadership (Built Environment) on Women’s Day 2020 Read More »
