Tracking Civil Services And Governance Since 2007
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Cover StoryElectoral 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...
GovernanceRace 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...
GovernanceHaryana: 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...
CorruptionManufacturing messiahs!
Or, how the drama at Jantar Mantar was stage-managed The simmering public anger against the massive scams and horrendous corruption in the country...
CorruptionFor sale: Indian democracy
India’s resources, governments, Parliamentarians and Ministers are on sale. This has been clearly brought home by the recent WikiLeaks revelations. As I said...
Mandrin MattersCivil servants, unite!
Babus have nothing to lose but their servility A group of us, including former civil servants, lawyers and other professionals, have set up...
Cover StoryHeart of darkness
“Governance and leadership are the yin and the yang of successful organizations. If you have leadership without governance you risk tyranny, fraud and...
Cover StoryCry for this coastline
Is POSCO’s $12-million project worth the destruction of Orissa’s natural seafront heritage? POSCO-India’s project to build a steel plant yielding 12 million tonnes...
GovernanceRise of the kleptolord
India’s institutions are being replaced by individual or dynastic hegemony The 101-medal, Rs 71,000-crore “best-ever Commonwealth Games” have made India a “super-super power”...
Mandrin MattersReforming the IAS: Both challenge and opportunity
Two surveys on the civil services have come out in quick succession. One is an online survey, with 340 responses, that gauged...
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