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First Stirrings‘It is easy to reinvent yourself’
My father’s family came to India from Saudi Arabia in 1840 and my mother’s with the Mughals in the 1520s. We have a...
By the WaySai Baba bond to the rescue
The administrator of Daman, Diu, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli (DDDNH) might be quite insignificant for the rest of the country but certainly...
Bric a Brac‘IPL’s Modi, not Gujarat’s Modi’
One tweet by Lalit Modi and the lid was blown off a virtual Pandora’s Box. The then Minister of State for External Affairs,...
TrackingZOHRA CHATTERJI The 1979-batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre has been appointed Secretary, National Commission for Women. SAMIRENDRA CHATTERJEE The 1976-batch IAS officer...
BlogGovernanceRAPIDLY SPREADING ROT
INTERNECINE conflict, turf battles, naked influence peddling by lobbyists and lawyers, overlapping jurisdictions, lack of clarity on structure and mission, and inter-ministerial warfare...
Mandrin MattersHow bureaucracy over rules the Rule of Law
In the landmark judgment of the division bench of the Supreme Court on May 23, 2008 (CA No.7631/2002) in the case of Dev...
PUBLIC CORNERBanker’s honour and vanishing funds
In 2004 – six years ago – I wrote three pieces for the International Herald Tribune (IHT). They asked how they could pay...
First StirringsThe ‘czar’ of Bharat Bhawan
I was born in a lower-middle-class family. My father was a Deputy Registrar of Sagar University. My uncle was in the civil service...
By the WaySansad Marg’s house-proud officer
Senior government officials who get postings in New Delhi have no worries on at least one count. They get reasonably furnished houses in...
Bric a BracModi finds a pal in Bachchan actor’s gujarati dalliance
Who is the real Amitabh Bachchan? Not just the persona that recites his Babuji’s Madhushala in his gifted, sonorous voice at every function....
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