Governance

An adhocracy in the making

As part of fast-tracking administrative reforms, the Government of India is evolving a “Performance Monitoring and Evaluation System” (PMES). This task has been...

GIVING BACK TO THE PEOPLE

Public sector companies are distinguished from their private corporate sector counterparts by their pursuit of social goal. The private sector is solely guided...

Inquiry or Inquisition?

The disciplinary rules for government servants are so convoluted that it is impossible to either exonerate the blameless or punish the guilty The...

The see-sawing scales of justice

There is a singular lack of punishment to be noted in recent cases of corruption involving people in government The blindfolded “Lady of...

The growth of graft

Liberalization has provided the dishonest fresh avenues to stash their cash Bhola is a physically challenged youth who rears goats for a living....

Whose witness, anyway?

The Indian judicial environment is loaded against those who depose in court against criminals On May 5, 2007, a mob of supporters of...

NEARLY two-and-a-half centuries ago, in 1770, Oliver Goldsmith wrote these poignant verses in his pastoral poem, The Deserted Village: “Ill fares the land,...

Swarm of the RED LOCUSTS

INTERNALsecurity is an important dimension of national security, the maintenance of which is a fundamental duty of any government. A government’s claim to...