Tracking Civil Services And Governance Since 2007

Controversy

ControversyGovernance

Population, Power and the Republic

Why India must resist weighted representation? As India heads toward a historic delimitation exercise, a deeper constitutional struggle is unfolding: should political power...

CommentCommunityControversy

How to Resolve the Gymkhana Imbroglio?

The nations (and cities) that lead both the competitiveness and live ability rankings — Singapore, Switzerland (Zurich), Denmark (Copenhagen) — share a visible...

ControversyGovernanceMandrin Matters

UPSC Final Interviews: Merit or Caste?

Despite reservations, caste and economic backwardness cannot supersede merit. This is why the Union Public Service Commission’s latest decision to share the Caste...

ControversyScam

Can Gautam Adani be arrested? Can he be extradited?

Indian billionaire Adani Group may find any further funding from investors harder following the US indictment as banks begin review and scrutiny of...

Controversy

Ghost of Jignesh Shah

I have read Alam Srinivas’ critique of my book and must take the bull by the horn. As things stand, Jignesh Shah has...

Controversy

Was Mother Teresa a proselytiser?

THESE were the pearls of wisdom mingled with hatred that RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat dropped while inaugurating an orphanage and a women’s home...