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Book ReviewWhen the Watchmen Break the Rules: A Spymaster’s Unflinching Audit of the Indian State
There is a distinct aroma of stale file dust, high-stakes intercept transcripts, and midnight cabinet briefings that lingers around books written by retired...
Book ReviewBehind Closed Doors in Beijing: The Secret History of the Asian Century
If you rely on nightly news bulletins, the story of India and China is simple, breathless, and written in permanent ink. It is...
GovernanceNewsBackdoor entry of Private players in Railway Production Units ?
To Shri G C Murmu C&AG Dear Shri Murmu, The People’s Commission has come to know that the Railway Board is opening a...
GovernanceKamath, Kochhar, Kalpana & Others
IT is like a good-turned-horrific, gold-tinted, but not-so-polished, penny that keeps making its untimely appearances at regular intervals. Ever since the beginning of...
State ScanPerils of wielding willow on the streets
Most BJP watchers started knowing Kailash Vijayvargiya a little better only after the BJP’s eye-popping performance in the Lok Sabha elections in West...
Book ReviewFrom behind the steel frame
THE British East India Company came to this subcontinent to trade and provide lucrative returns to its shareholders in London. In the process,...
State ScanJustice delayed
NEARLY 25 per cent of the population in Goa is in the danger of losing its livelihood. These 300,000 people are connected with...
GovernanceOil & Gas: Why settle for ‘Sell in India’, when you can ‘Make in India!’
For every barrel of oil produced in India, the government earns more than 50 per cent of revenue through royalty, cess, profit petroleum;...
Global ScanSino-Indian ties : Chinese envoy’s googly
ON June 18 the Chinese Ambassador to India Luo Zhaohui took diplomatic watchers by surprise with an elaborate but a contentious statement suggesting...
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