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Nailing Labour to The Cross

THEY grease the wheels of India’s economy with their sweat and toil. They plough the land, sow and harvest in the scorching sun...

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SYSTEMS FAILURE, SITUATION CRITICAL

ONE of most quoted allegories of incompetence for a person holding high office is that Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned might...

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COSMIC DANCE, WORLDLY TRANCE

Faith, Lies & Tall Tales The COVID-19 disease is caused by the SARS-CoV2 virus. It spread, it captured, and it killed. What was...

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Kejriwal: A political revolutionary or Machiavelli?

THE incandescent halo of Anna Hazare has dimmed like the smouldering ashes of a fire that has long gone cold. The heady feeling...

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Shooting the messenger

On August 21, Collector of Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Kannan Gopinathan, a 2012-batch AGMUT cadre officer, resigned from his post and quit the...

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Shadow Boxing : The fight against corruption

A spate of headlines over the past few months might have given reason to many to believe that the Modi 2.0 government has,...

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Governance

Hamster on a wheel

Next time you log into Facebook and click on that thumb sign to like a post or write a comment or update your...

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Governance

Toothless Commissioner

In a well-functioning democracy, the righteousness and integrity of bureaucrats and constitutional authorities lend rigidity to the steel frame that is supposed to...

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First Stirrings

Black thunder, silver lightning

I was the first one in the family to join the Indian Army. Both my father and grandfather were in the Civil Services...

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Governance

Massive Army, Miniscule Spending

Increasing the Expenditure on Defence Services The Committee notes that India with its strategic location, with a coastline of about 7,500 km and...