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Cover StoryTHE GREAT LAND ROBBERY : Haryana is not a state, it is real estate LAND ROBBERY
“We must speak up irrespective of whether it will have its desired effects or not, because by speaking up we may not guarantee...
From the EditorFrom the Editor
WELCOME, 2014. In all probability, this is going to be a landmark year in India’s history. There will be a good deal of...
First StirringsA life less ordinary : Lt Gen AS Kalkat
I was in the UK, on an International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) fellowship. One day, Gen Sundarji’s office informed me that the...
Big Bosssecretary, drinking water supply shantha sheela nair
Appropriately, Shantha Sheela Nair – Secretary, Drinking Water Supply, Ministry of Rural Development – feels strongly about India’s water problems. A 1973-batch IAS...
Big BossIndividual employees must be held accountable
From a humble background in Orissa, Satyanand Mishra is an IAS officer of the 1973 batch, Madhya Pradesh cadre. He has an MA...
First StirringsThe PSUchamp
BELONGING to a middle-class family in Madras, I grew up imbibing certain values from my father, an accounts officer in the Comptroller and...
Big Boss‘Can India Progress Without UP Progressing?’
Appointed Cabinet Secretary on June 14,2004,BK Chaturvedi held the post till June 13,2007. An IAS officer of the 1966 batch (UP cadre), he...
Big Boss‘We’ throwing out the old system’
Vijayendra Nath Kaul joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1965 after securing a postgraduate degree in history from St Stephen’s College,Delhi.He was sent...
MastermindMayawati’s Trishul
As a boy from a conservative Allahabad Brahmin family, growing up in Lucknow where father Triveni Sahai Mishra was a judge (later CJ...
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