Tracking Civil Services And Governance Since 2007

Governance

Governance

Cry, my beloved country

All those who care about good governance and the rule of law must be dismayed, nay shocked, by the cumulative effect of several...

Governance

THE AYES VOF SOMNATH ERSUS NAYS CHATTERJEE

The summary expulsion of Lok Sabha Speaker, Somnath Chatterjee from his party the CPI (M), has raised several questions about the relationship between...

Governance

RAM TERA PRADESH MAILA

Governance in Uttar Pradesh has been marked by political instability and an even deeper bureaucratic instability. Since Independence, UP has had 42 Chief...

Governance

I have begun to wonder if corruption is an issue in this country at all. Everyone cries themselves hoarse about it, but nobody...

Governance

Every citizen is a policemanan sans uniform

ATENDENCY has developed among people to blame the police for every ill in society even when their own contribution towards such ills is...

Governance

Foot-in-mouth disease

THEunnecessary spat between the Governments of Malaysia and India resulted from a crude combination of regional and tribal chauvinism and the imperatives of...

Governance

The unheralded policeman

IN 1948, when the first batch of the Indian Police Service graduated, the nation welcomed it. It was a laudable idea to have...

Governance

What’s so secret, anyway?

THE Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has received a good deal of flak lately over raids conducted as part of an investigation. A...

GovernancePolice Reforms

An Open Letter to Police Officers of India

Dear Friends, I have been thinking of writing to all the police officers of the country for quite some time, particularly the Superintendents...

Governance

Healing thyself

GOVERNMENT is, and will remain,central to our society.It is the role of the government to ensure social justice, to create an even playing...