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Tinkering, exploring and creating.

Tell me what you are!

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Can love really die when the lover is still alive? Promises become tombs? In droplets of time Emptiness filled by nature Death of love covered by hills of green curvature Clouds shift, drape, dab my thoughts   As mountains open my eyes The pain of togetherness, echoes in destroyed streams A light spear cuts down through my dreams   O' Earth, I run to you when I see impermanence of human life laid bare Searching for the peace within, with an umbrella in my hand For my tears flood my own lands O how I live with canon pain The sands are shifting as my window pains

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Maximise the existing space within the maximum city with the Layered Transport System. The Layered Transport System or LTS is a solution I designed over 9 years ago. For solving Mumbai’s increasing local transport woes. With this in place we will need neither coastal roads, nor another sea link, as we will be able to maximise the existing space within the maximum city.

The Layered Transport System or LTS model, will work with the railway station as the hub of the integrated transport and travel eco-system. Adding the East & West connectivity to this approach will make Mumbai livable :-)  

According to me, many architects's, town planners - this coastal road project is a complete waste of resources, and tax-payers money meant to leave a lasting impression of the political masters on Mumbai's memory.

We can quadruple the efficiency of public transport, by just making a 6 lane 'Hover Road' right above all the railway lines, which cover every inch of Greater Mumbai region. And a Layered Transport System (LTS) for last-mile connectivity.

This 'Hover Road' will ease traffic for West and East immediately, with current plan in 10 years East will need another coastal road.

However, as Mumbai's development is controlled by its land mafia, it will spoil plans of unlocking East in a decade, with NPT's 5000 acres being unlocked by someone.

With no need to acquire free land along the shore, no need to spend on some of the most expensive infrastructure construction, no need to ruin the view of the bay for the people who spend millions of dollars on cramped homes. It's seems like a win win for citizens. However, the Government's apathy which has brought this country to the state it is in, continues, as cutting across political lines - politicians are just the same. Petty, bickering fools.

If you study it in detail, this is  the biggest grab and infrastructure scam in Mumbai. As land along the coast is inhabited by jhuggis/ slums or fishermen villages. Both classes have no land papers. So, who is the government paying for the land? I know the answer, yet, that's not the point.

We all as conscious Indian's need to stop glorifying acts of hidden supression, just because it comes in the name of development.

We all need to question, what does development cost us, not in mere dollars, in terms of cost to nature, cost to air quality, cost to life expectancy and beyond.  

Alas, that is not happening.

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'Conceptual Economy Bank' a new form of currency by Vikram Sood

Back in 1997, at the University of Connecticut, Mr.Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve spoke of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_economy 

He said "The growth of the conceptual component of output has brought with it accelerating demands for workers who are equipped not simply with technical know-how, but with the ability to create, analyze, and transform information and to interact effectively with others. By 2004, he had developed his views on the topic, referring to reductions in manufacturing in the United States, outsourcing to India and China, excess of supply and the global marketplace, all leading to the increasing conceptualization of economic output.  Conceptual economy is a term describing the contribution of creativity, innovation, and designskills to economic competitiveness, especially in the global context.

I have been a part of the creative industry in various roles and departments since 2000. And here, for the first time - I am attempting to build and propose a new kind of system for banking and funding creative entrepreneurs.  The pillars of the proposed systems are taking shape across the world, especially in the IP enforcement strong countries. 

As we move into this era of a new economy; ideas will be born with an inherent value. Which means innovative ideas that have global or even locally monetize-able applications will create new value. This in turn means an idea it-self can become a currency. This new form of currency will need to trade, and as such it will need a bank based on this new currency; The CONCEPTUAL ECONOMY Bank.

Why? The future of currency is definitely not singularly physical anymore. We are well on our way into a digital currency with the first avataar in 'BitCoins', and i am sure Bitcoins will will morph into a more mature currency as we travel through the Conceptual Economy Age.  In the Conceptual Economy - Individuals and organizations with innovative ideas which have proven inherent value (IP); will be able to deposit them at a global bank 'Conceptual Economy Bank'. The bank in turn will transact across the globe by turning those ideas into assets, or use them as a security - like a bullion reserve was in the past days. This bank won't offer retail banking facilities; like an ATM etc. but will play a more fundamental role in partnerships will global IP protocols like WIPO, and other regional and local IP protection and enforcement regimes. It will help innovators and inventors #COBUILD a business without any cash injection at all. It will all be about collaboration and co-creation in return for #coowned #covalue.  I shall post more thoughts on the Conceptual Economy Bank as i go thinking deeper into the concept.  

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Ignore Pakistan till behaving like normal neighbour

Ignore Pakistan till behaving like normal neighbour

Vikram Sood

Standing up for one’s rights is not warmongering; nor are dissent and criticism signs of disloyalty. On the other hand, appeasement and sycophancy are dangerously close to being disloyal. One does not become a warmonger or a hardliner merely because it is argued that peace with Pakistan, which has believed in unremitting belligerence in its relations with India, looks remote under the…

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