When Dr. Parasuraman first approached me, I had just one question — one that has become somewhat of a habit now - will I be asked to wear the awful attire normally associated with convocations? On being re-assured that TISS follows a saner and more civilised dress code, I readily agreed to be with you today.
I cannot but help recall that I first came here in December 1974 to attend a seminar on urban planning. I remember the redoubtable Dr. M.S. Gore being present. My own paper, that I must confess appears so naive, so theoretical and so unrealistic in retrospect, was based on my bachelor's thesis at nearby IIT on urban modelling based on the then-fashionable systems dynamics approach developed by Jay Forrester, Dennis Meadows and their colleagues at MIT. This was a time when I believed that management science broadly defined to include game theory, operations research, systems analysis and the like held the keys to all problems of public policy. Download the complete report in pdf format here.
Source: Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State (Independent Charge) Environment and Forests, Government of India
