IAS (retd) with a distinguished career of 40 years - worked in Army, Govt, Private, Politics & NGOs.
94 Articles0 CommentsTHE anti-corruption rhetoric has been the flavour of the last several seasons with a political party morphing out of it and briefly capturing...
ByMG DevasahayamMarch 9, 2014SHAKESPEARE’S Macbeth has a poignant quote: “Nothing in his life/Became him like the leaving it”. This refers to the execution of Thane of...
ByMG DevasahayamFebruary 9, 2014SCHOLARs believe that the name ‘Haryana’ came from the words Hari (sanskrit Harit, ‘green’) and Aranya (forest). At its formation in 1966, Haryana...
ByMG DevasahayamJanuary 9, 2014General Vijay Kumar Singh, the new Chief of the Army Staff, commenced his innings as head of the world’s second largest standing Army...
ByMG DevasahayamMay 21, 2010As part of fast-tracking administrative reforms, the Government of India is evolving a “Performance Monitoring and Evaluation System” (PMES). This task has been...
ByMG DevasahayamApril 21, 2010There is a singular lack of punishment to be noted in recent cases of corruption involving people in government The blindfolded “Lady of...
ByMG DevasahayamMarch 3, 2010NEARLY two-and-a-half centuries ago, in 1770, Oliver Goldsmith wrote these poignant verses in his pastoral poem, The Deserted Village: “Ill fares the land,...
ByMG DevasahayamDecember 19, 2009The Lokpal Bill’s repeated failure to become law is one of many instances of the clout of corrupt public servants In recent weeks,...
ByMG DevasahayamOctober 10, 2009Flawed EVMs or money power, the Election Commission is simply shutting its eyes to solutions Weeks before the election to the 15th Lok...
ByMG DevasahayamSeptember 9, 2009There is little in the Budget to fulfil the stated goal of re-energizing government so how will it happen? Presentation of the annual...
ByMG DevasahayamAugust 8, 2009