Tag Archives: Sustainability

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

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Sustainable Hyderabad

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The following graphic is a schematic of transit oriented development toward a sustainable Hyderabad. The gray portions represent road and rail infrastructure and the white portions are green living/working areas. The city center is … Continue reading

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The Sustainability Space

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The following table lays out the stakeholders in the global sustainability space. It is representative but not exhaustive.

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Sustainability And Corruption

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The purpose of this article is to articulate the logic of the relationship between the level of corruption in any society and the sustainability of the society. This analysis is equally applicable to … Continue reading

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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

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Property Rights? Sir Francis Drake, Piracy, Skull And Bones, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Ultra, MK Ultra And United States of America

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (Sir Francis Drake, The Buccaneer, 1545-1596) Knight Commanders of the British Empire (KBE), typically prefixed by the word of distinction “Sir” have all begun as “boot makers” to kings, groomed to be eventually … Continue reading

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Rio Centro, 2012

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 13, 2012 – Transcendence is a word whose meaning eludes many people. Its metaphysics may be inspirational, and beguiling enough to be aspirational, but its reality is what … Continue reading

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On The Rationality Assumption In Neoclassical Economics

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Axioms are the unquestioned building blocks of any particular system of knowledge. One singular example of an axiomatic scheme is Euclidean Geometry, a compilation of all geometry in 3rd century B.C.E by Greek … Continue reading

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Event Horizon: Reset 2012-2016

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa There has been considerable consternation and harassment, public and personal, orchestrated by the United States government about a memo of mine, which I had written inside the Federal Reserve as employee feedback for … Continue reading

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Fall, Forgiveness And Resurrection

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa I The Fall (From the south aisle of Ely Cathedral. A Victorian series of Genesis windows by Gerente) The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living And … Continue reading

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