Sanjeev's Blog Property rights for future migrants
In his recent Budget speech, the finance minister reiterated the government’s plans to make India “slum-free” within five years...Read More Can Mumbai be our Global Champion?
The city must now choose between two very different futures
To whom does Mumbai belong? This is a question that has simmered for years and has now blown up into a major national controversy ...Read More At 60 - Rethinking the Indian States
It is now 60 years since we became a Republic and the Indian state came into being..... Read More
Urbanism for the Poor Why we need to rethink our slums ?
There is every sign that India is launching into a period of rapid urbanization. In the next thirty years, an additional 350 million people....Read More
Rethinking the role of the Indian State
Why a “strong” but “limited” State is the cure for problems ranging from Naxalism to Manu Sharma....Read More
Rebuilding Mumbai for the 21st Century
Mumbai does not need to be “decongested”, it needs to redeploy its Eastern seaboard. ...Read More
Reigniting Kolkata’s Spirit
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Calcutta (as it was known then) was the capital of the British Empire in India and its writ ran from the Khyber Pass to Burma. ...Read More
"Walkablity" - the critical Urban Paradigm
The Economic Times editorial of 27th September 2009 quoted the WWF’s The Alternative Urban Futures Report and raised the following question: “Is the WWF survey looking at walking as a recreational ...Read More
Reinventing Delhi: Cutting the Gordian Knot
Few cities in the world have been as dramatically transformed as Delhi in the last hundred years. From a decayed Mughal city at the end of the nineteenth century to grand...Read More
Building Cities for 21st Century India
Our new cities need to be dense and walkable
Mahatma Gandhi had once famously said “India lives in
its villages”....Read More
Light at the End of the Population Tunnel
Why India’s Population will stabilize sooner than expected....Read More
Radically Rethinking Agriculture
It’s time we busted a few myths and revamped our strategy towards the farm sector....Read More
Why we need to revive Small-Town India
The new national government has promised to remove all slums from urban India within five years. A worthy goal perhaps, but it will be no easy task...Read More
The next generation of reforms
After the liberalization of markets, the next set of reforms should be those involving governance...Read More
Reforming the God of GDP
Why we need a better way to measure human progress
The world is currently reeling from two major crises – the financial/economic crisis and the crisis of climate change and ecological collapse....Read More Spending alone isn't the answer
A long-term solution to the economic crisis has to be more than a mere replay of Keynesian remedies...Read More Learn the Right Lessons
This crisis is a failure of capitalists, not capitalism. India should
keep that in mind if it wants to be an economic superpower...Read More India's Security Failure – Who is Responsible?
by Sanjeev Sanyal an angry Indian
India is no stranger to terrorism. When I was born...Read More My speech at the India Banao! launch event at the FICCI Auditorium
Indian Renaissance: India's rise after a thousand years of decline...Read More Order, order, order
The last 17 years have transformed India, but we still have a long
way to go.There are different areas where reform...Read More Slow train to cities
India is still an overwhelmingly with around 70% of Indians living
in villages today.Yet the country's future...Read More What will India's next big growth Sector will be ?
India’s economy has been dramatically changing in the last 15 years. It is now the latest of a long string of Asian countries... Read More Bringing India Back : The Opportunity of Our Generation
India is an ancient civilization with a glorious past but it has been in decline for a thousand years. There is a common ... Read More | 
