Governance

Governance

Festering Sri Lanka: What should India do?

RIDING the crest of an emphatic mandate, Prime Minister NarendraModi has taken charge and has hit the ground running. The Union Cabinet has...

Governance

The turncoat bureaucrat

THE imminent change of guard at Raisina Hill will once again witness the emergence of turncoat bureaucrats, this time in large numbers due...

Governance

IAS officers sans conscience?

I read this news in The Hindu on the morning of April 14, 2014 under the headline ‘IAS officers drafting wish-list for pay...

Governance

Human security is true‘development’

SRIPERUMBUDUR Parliamen-tary constituency, adjoining Chennai in Tamil Nadu, is a ‘developed’ one if the neo-liberal ‘development’ criteria are adopted. This is the home...

In the eye of the storm: Former Army Chief General VK Singh
Governance

Meddling with national security?

SOME weeks ago, a group of Kashmiri students in Meerut were slapped with sedition charges just because they cheered the Pakistani cricket team...

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Governance

Making an organisation tick

ORGANISATIONAL excellence is the need of the hour, and I wonder what excellence in organisations is really all about. Perhaps it is about...

NGO-partnership
Governance

Linking the last mile

LOCAL participatory development is a strategy that is being deployed by governments in developing countries to achieve a variety of socio-economic goals. These...

Governance

Another trade to dupe?

THERE was a time when Jignesh Shah was acclaimed as a pioneer in developing the commodities and futures industry in the Indian subcontinent....

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Governance

Demographic bulge ahead!

INDIA has traditionally enjoyed a robust joint family system taking care of elderly persons. However, the sweeping currents of globalisation and transcending cultures...

Narendra-Modi
Governance

Race for 7 Race Course Road

SHAKESPEARE’S Macbeth has a poignant quote: “Nothing in his life/Became him like the leaving it”. This refers to the execution of Thane of...