Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa
Chandra Tamirisa is a Global Sustainability Consultant, Entrepreneur, and Government Relations professional, and the Owner, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Transformations LLC, Common Era LLC and Samskruti, Washington, D.C-based global consulting, entrepreneurhsip and government relations firms specializing in advising stakeholders in the political, economic, business and engineering aspects of sustainable global development and integration. He is a skilled adviser on policy, strategy and engineering. His unique interdisciplinary expertise in politics, economics, management and engineering draws on his diverse and advanced educational background and experience in both the private and public sectors to enable him to provide thorough, comprehensive and independent strategic issue analyses and creative policy solutions to policy problems faced by government and business leaders in foreign policy, national security policy, macroeconomic policy and regulatory policy.
Category Archives: South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma and Sri Lanka
India’s Desertec
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The Desertec Foundation, a European civil society organization, expects to supply electricity to Europe by locating concentrating solar-thermal plants around the Sahara in North Africa. The Desertec concept is applicable around the world. … Continue reading
Redevelopment Of Dharavi, Mumbai
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa One of Asia’s largest slums, Dharavi in Mumbai, has caught the attention of National Geographic in 2007, and the World Economic Forum and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation within the past year. … Continue reading
India: Economic Outlook
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Indian economy is slowing. 2012 has not been the best year for agriculture – the largest of the 3 economic sectors and industrial output is also declining. Slowdowns in United States and Europe have … Continue reading
Drones, Hangings And The Opaque War On Terror
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Afzal Guru of India and Ajmal Kasab of Pakistan have been hung by the neck to death for terrorism in India, after trials for waging war against India. Anwar Aulaqui and Samir Khan, both Americans, were droned … Continue reading
US And India Solar Trade Wars. Whither Local-Global?
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa United States has filed a dispute against India in the World Trade Organization (WTO) contending that US solar exports to India will be hurt by the domestic content requirement in Indian solar procurements. Acquiring … Continue reading
Telangana
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Well known Indian public intellectual Ramachandra Guha has opined in a lead article in today’s Hindu newspaper that movements to split existing states into smaller entities do not pose a threat to the … Continue reading
People’s Republic Of China, Republic Of India, And United States Of America
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Jagdish Bhagwati, the well-known trade economist at Columbia University, has raised two important points about India’s relationship with the United States in a recent report in The Economic Times, an Indian daily newspaper … Continue reading
India: On The Right Track, Yet Not Fast Enough
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa In a series of Tweets and in pictures India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh communicated India’s significant progress within the last decade. India is on the right track, yet not fast enough. Here is why: … Continue reading
India: Education And Human Resources
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa 7hDr Manmohan Singh @PMOIndia PM launches redevelopment of Lady Hardinge Medical College; appeals to all our doctors, nurses and staff to work relentlessly and sincerely. 9sTransformations @c_tamirisa @PMOIndia Human Resources in India, http://ctamirisa.com/2012/11/03/human-resources-in-india 5:58 PM IST … Continue reading
India: The Taxation Of Underreported Incomes
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Underreported income, or ‘black money‘ as it is commonly known in India, defined arithmetically as the difference between the true income from both legal and illegal activities and the income reported to tax … Continue reading
