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GovernanceThe good earth
Acquiring land, whether for public or private purposes, is not easy. There are conflicts galore and the political climate is hot. Yet, if...
GovernanceJagged skyline, swarming kerbs
A workshop on urban planning warns that the government must resist real estate lucre in the interest of the people Everyone involved tends...
GovernancePoor, poor taxman!
The errors and loopholes in the Direct Taxes Code Bill, 2010, point to a shoddy job of drafting The Direct Taxes Code Bill,...
GovernanceAn Abominable Deficit
The phrase “governance deficit” may lately have become a staple of coffee house conversation but the fact is that the Indian public has...
GovernanceAssam’s work-for-all effort
First-ever State government initiative targets labour market participation The Assam government has released an employment policy aimed at the State’s inclusive, gainful and...
Governance‘You must have the sensitivity’
“WHENI talk about unity and integrity of our country, we have to reckon with the fact that law and order maintenance is a...
GovernanceRise of the kleptolord
India’s institutions are being replaced by individual or dynastic hegemony The 101-medal, Rs 71,000-crore “best-ever Commonwealth Games” have made India a “super-super power”...
GovernanceLooking for alibis, not action
I am no great admirer of Henry Kissinger, President Richard Nixon’s Man Friday. But his pithy remark, “America needs a strategy, not an...
GovernanceSaying boo to corporators
My mother is 88 years old, perfectly alert and, having been born and brought up in Lahore, always reminisces about “the good old...
GovernanceTemples of new India
In the coming decade, a major challenge for the Manmohan Singh government is the expansion of university education in order to churn out...
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