Environmental governance is one of the emerging challenges facing the contemporary world. It is the means by which society determines and acts on...
ByPrabhat KumarJune 7, 2019IN March 2013, a concerned group of ex-bureaucrats, including some former cabinet secretaries, met then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to advocate for urgent...
ByPrabhat KumarJanuary 6, 2019Strange are the ways of the government at times. For instance, in the beginning of the twentieth century, the government of Madras Presidency...
ByPrabhat KumarDecember 5, 2018I have spent almost four decades in government. But in my knowledge, never before has a campaign to introduce and spread ethics in...
ByPrabhat KumarSeptember 12, 2018A new chapter was recently added to the old debate on the relationship between the political executive and the senior bureaucracy when the...
ByPrabhat KumarAugust 17, 2018WHAT started as a proposed idea has now emerged in a concrete form with the Department Of Personnel and Training issuing an advertisement...
ByPrabhat KumarJuly 16, 2018SWOOSH! Another civil service day has just passed like an ephemeral shower of April. Nothing seems to have changed a bit in government....
ByPrabhat KumarMay 18, 2018IT is widely believed, and not without substance, that the recent large scale replacement of currency has caused avoidable distress to the small...
ByPrabhat KumarFebruary 14, 2017WHEN we are confronted with the evidence in any matter, for example a personal or a political issue, the cognitive process in our...
ByPrabhat KumarJanuary 14, 2017I N the foreword to the White Paper on the ‘State of Law and Order in Delhi’ that was released to the media...
ByPrabhat KumarDecember 16, 2016