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Open Letter to Pranab Mukherjee

Dear External Affairs Minister, The tentative actions announced by the Government of Pakistan regarding closure of a couple of terrorist camps and arrests...

Editorial

Editorial

A soft state is a soft target. This is the brutal, inescapable lesson of Mumbai. The point is not whether our soldiers and...

First Stirrings

Serving many a department at the wrong time

A retired IAS officer reminisces about Hercules, Bofors and educating MPs Throughout my life, I have been inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and his...

By the Way

Mumbai attack cost IB chief dearly

Home Minister Shivraj Patil’s was not the only head to roll in the wake of the Mumbai terror attack. The axe has also...

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Gfiles Awards

Award for AI’s Bhargava

Jitender Bhargava, then with Indian Airlines, once quizzed the chef of a Chennai-based five-star hotel that supplied food to the airlines, “Suppose the...

First Stirrings

From farming to IAS field work

A Dalit farmer’s son traces his rise through the ranks I was born in Kandhla, Muzzaffarnagar,  UP, in a small Dalit farmer’s family....

By the Way

Of hirsute matters

Archana Agarwal, a 1990-batch IAS officer of the UP cadre, is better known as the PPP (public-private partnership) lady of the state and...

Bric a Brac

Reins loose in Mahila Congress

hotelier chief breaks conventions Prabha Thakur, formerly a two-term Lok Sabha member and currently a Rajya Sabha member, who is also president of...