Ashwin Mahesh

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‘First Job Guarantee’ must be universal and local

Now, with elections underway, a chunk of the unemployed are heading to the polling booth, and these worries are at the top of their list of expectations from candidates.

20 April 2024, 21:09 IST

‘First Job Guarantee’ must be universal and local

20 April 2024, 21:09 IST

Affordable housing is unavailable, by design

This seems like a problem with obvious solutions. Reserve 25 per cent of the land in the city -- in every ward, not the outskirts alone -- for low-income housing, and another 25 per cent for rental-only communities.

24 February 2024, 22:13 IST

Affordable housing is unavailable, by design

24 February 2024, 22:13 IST

Homes, starting at a price you can’t afford

Why are we systematically excluding the majority of people from fair access to organised and well-managed housing? Who is the city for, if not for its own people?

03 February 2024, 23:44 IST

Homes, starting at a price you can’t afford

03 February 2024, 23:44 IST

We must jump in before laws are made

State, Market, Society

06 January 2024, 19:37 IST

We must jump in before laws are made

06 January 2024, 19:37 IST

Who speaks for all of society?

There is a useful lesson in all this. Joining forces with others is a good thing. It magnifies what we seek, and makes it more likely that we’ll get it too.

18 December 2023, 22:35 IST

Who speaks for all of society?

18 December 2023, 22:35 IST

The government is not the public

State, Market, Society

14 October 2023, 19:52 IST

The government is not the public

14 October 2023, 19:52 IST

Read the Preamble, but also live it

Indira Gandhi added ‘socialist’ into the preamble. But do we the people see socialism as an important anchor of how we wish to go forward?

16 September 2023, 23:36 IST

Read the Preamble, but also live it

16 September 2023, 23:36 IST

What if we don’t drink or drive?

Doing the numbers is one thing. But finding the money for the new schemes is a very different thing.

20 August 2023, 02:41 IST

What if we don’t drink or drive?

20 August 2023, 02:41 IST

Courts must see through the games govts play

You and I, ordinary citizens, can see this – that despite the several orders of the courts on the issue, defections have not stopped.

14 August 2023, 21:40 IST

Courts must see through the games govts play

14 August 2023, 21:40 IST

People first, parties later

A lot of the political parties that compete for our attention have existed for decades.

22 July 2023, 19:45 IST

People first, parties later

22 July 2023, 19:45 IST