If you burn your finger in a pot of boiling water, should you blame the water, the pot, the fire or yourself?
Ever since the Urban Development minister Mr. Kamal Nath has raised this question, a whole lot of experts (pseudo included) have jumped into the argument with valid arguments on why Delhi should not go vertical. Here are some misnomers, for the consumption of the common man, which seeks correction. 1. If Delhi has to plan [...]
All the fuss about the “6.5 kms of confusion”, as one user of the BRT corridor addresses it, is not deterring the Delhi government to use this vehicle to solve the commuting woes forecasted in Delhi. It might be recalled that Delhi is expecting it’s population to increase by more than 10 million people, 2 [...]
Pronouncing the last judgement during his tenure as the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, justice Ajit Prakash Shah said: “Everyone has the right to live a decent life. It is not uncommon that in the garb of evicting slums and beautifying the city, the state agencies, in fact, end up creating more slums. [...]
The title would seem like a scandalous statement, however, it might prove true too, given the slow pace of the Union government. The master plan of Delhi, in 2007, had given three years time for the polluting industries under 99 categories to either shift, or close down their units within three years. To revisit the [...]
“Buy land, they are not making it anymore” – Mark Twain had famously remarked once. The romantic dalliance of the Indian investor community in the last two years has been a roller coaster ride. Everyone has seen extreme troughs n crests, primarily owing to impractical valuations in all the categories, be it Gold, stock markets [...]