Tracking Civil Services And Governance Since 2007

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56th FC at LBSNAA

It was a long-long time ago. A disparate bunch. Bright, bespectacled, buoyant. Beautiful in their collective swell Of belief. As game changers We...

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Impressions

4,00,000 starry-eyed Indians, we are informed, applied for the Civil Services this year. How many of them know, we wonder, that the successful...

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Coming Together of Young, Bright and Passionate Minds

IT seems just like yesterday, when on August 19, 1990, I boarded the overnight bus from ISBT Delhi to Mussoorie. The journey, though...

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Look behind as well as beyond

THERE were many attachments during the 56th Foundation Course (FC). While we were in the midst of villageattachments spread over northern India, we...

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Delhi in disarray

Right through May and early June, the confrontation between Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung held centrestage. Editorials, prime-time...

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The importance of being Arvind Kejriwal

THE recent developments in Delhi are a textbook case study of how a Union Territory should not be administered. The ‘shock and awe’...

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Shivraj’s retinue

ADMITTEDLY, it isn’t too difficult to figure out the 10 favourite bureaucrats of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister. All the key IAS officers in...

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Vyapam woes for Shivraj

MADHYA Pradesh has been no stranger to political swindles that shook successive Chief Ministers since the state was formed in 1956. But the...

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Bose: pioneer of planning in India

CONTRARY to popular belief, the now deceased Planning Commission was not a legacy of Jawaharlal Nehru. The blueprint for this institution was outlined...