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First StirringsSERVING INDIVIDUALS AND SOCIETY
WHEN I was Chairman, New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC), one day I heard a lady arguing loudly with my Personal Secretary, insisting on...
Out Of The Box‘We are here to improve India’defence capabilities on a par with world standards’
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems is a $32.4-billion business headquartered in St Louis, Missouri, US with 72,000 employees worldwide. It provides network-centric system solutions...
Talk Time‘If the Metro rail is Delhi’s pride, thepower sector is ours’
Dr MP Sood is an action-oriented and people-friendly Himachal Administrative Services bureaucrat. Holding a doctorate in plant breeding, he is at present Secretary,...
BooksThe human factor
“IT doesn’t matter to me if my book doesn’t sell a lot of copies; all I want is that five wise men read...
Big Boss‘We took advantage of asignificant change in international perceptions’
Former Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran belongs to the 1970 batch of the Indian Foreign Service. He served at the MEA as Joint Secretary,...
Talk Time‘We must fight against haphazard development’
Pondicherry was just a small fishing village when the French occupied it in 1673. But it soon grew into a flourishing port town...
Global ScanMaking human rights a global concept is a little-recognized facet of globalization
MUCH has been said about globalization, its pros and cons, its promises and failures, and how it can or cannot help developing countries...
GovernanceEvery citizen is a policemanan sans uniform
ATENDENCY has developed among people to blame the police for every ill in society even when their own contribution towards such ills is...
Bric a BracPapa PC on lobbying mission
LIKE any other politician of the country, Finance Minister P Chidambaram wants to intro duce his son, Karthik Chidambaram, who is a Chennai...
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