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Electoral Integrity: Key to corruption-free India

THE anti-corruption rhetoric has been the flavour of the last several seasons with a political party morphing out of it and briefly capturing...

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Governance

Race for 7 Race Course Road

SHAKESPEARE’S Macbeth has a poignant quote: “Nothing in his life/Became him like the leaving it”. This refers to the execution of Thane of...

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Governance

Haryana: From Green to Grey State?

SCHOLARs believe that the name ‘Haryana’ came from the words Hari (sanskrit Harit, ‘green’) and Aranya (forest). At its formation in 1966, Haryana...

Governance

Who’s the biggest Trojan?

Flawed EVMs or money power, the Election Commission is simply shutting its eyes to solutions Weeks before the election to the 15th Lok...

Cover StoryGovernance

No meat in your policies, Pranabda

 There is little in the Budget to fulfil the stated goal of re-energizing government so how will it happen? Presentation of the annual...

Governance

Freedom from political talons 

A few days after UPA II took office, a mainstream newspaper informed readers: “The end of the transfer-posting-raj is in sight. Bureaucrats are...

GovernanceMandrin Matters

Freedom from political talons 

The Civil Services Bill, 2009 will liberate babus from the tyranny of transfers, among other vital changes A few days after UPA II...

Cover StoryGovernance

A second chance, gifted by the aam aadmi

The Prime Minister has a mandate – now he should govern Egged on by screaming media anchors, exit pollwallahs and armchair analysts, the...

Election

Note power, not vote power

What is taking place in the electoral arena is commerce rather than the democratic exercise of the right to vote Six decades ago,...

Governance

The Slumdog syndrome

Corruption and injustice have rotted our system to the core “Slumdog is just every scrap of dirt picked up from every corner and...