Business Standard

Saurabh Modi

Saurabh Modi

Saurabh Modi

Saurabh Modi is an urban policy researcher, writer and contributor for print and online media. He writes on wider topics of cities, governance, and political economy. He is a lawyer trained in economics with a five-year work experience in public policy. He is proficient in data analysis and visualization, with a know-how of GIS.

Saurabh Modi is an urban policy researcher, writer and contributor for print and online media. He writes on wider topics of cities, governance, and political economy. He is a lawyer trained in economics with a five-year work experience in public policy. He is proficient in data analysis and visualization, with a know-how of GIS.

Twitter

Saurabh Modi

The Performer examines the move from open stages to digital screens

The arc of human progress must be looked at through changes in civility, which is much larger than changes in culture

The Performer examines the move from open stages to digital screens
Updated On : 25 Nov 2024 | 11:27 PM IST

A Ravindra's book delves into India's urbanisation challenges and future

With a few exceptions of large slums in megacities such as Mumbai, the poor continue to live on the city fringe-a colonial legacy that persists to this day

A Ravindra's book delves into India's urbanisation challenges and future
Updated On : 29 Oct 2024 | 10:13 PM IST

The rights of the Nicobar forests

A collection of essays is a timely attempt at ringing alarm bells over the proposed project port project in the ecologically fragile Galathea Bay of Nicobar island

The rights of the Nicobar forests
Updated On : 06 Aug 2024 | 10:36 PM IST

The rise of skyscrapers

Jason M Barr presents towering buildings in a new light-as a strategic balancing act between costs and revenues to maximise profits, rather than a display of hubris

The rise of skyscrapers
Updated On : 02 Jul 2024 | 10:44 PM IST

The worth of land value tax

The book dives deep into an innovative land valuation model used in the city of Baybay, Philippines to fit the purpose

The worth of land value tax
Updated On : 14 Mar 2023 | 10:03 PM IST

The nation as a 'continuous conversation'

Through a series of essays, Rajeev Bhargava reflects on our times, what is good and bad, right and wrong. His book is a treatise to the inquiry: Have we lost our way?

The nation as a 'continuous conversation'
Updated On : 25 Jan 2023 | 3:36 PM IST

How to be an activist

The Anarchist Cookbook serves as a primer for anyone who wants to engage in activism. Focusing on securing smaller, more manageable goals is the key

How to be an activist
Updated On : 03 Nov 2022 | 11:51 AM IST

A race with no finish line

Book chapters are organised into sections around calamities, food produce, fossil fuels and alternate power

A race with no finish line
Updated On : 18 May 2022 | 1:33 AM IST

Dissent for a brighter future

The book compares the strategies of state overreach used during the Emergency with those of the current government

Dissent for a brighter future
Updated On : 03 Mar 2022 | 12:01 AM IST