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Bring an end to teaching shops

Last year, as a non-technical member of a corporate campus selection panel, I asked a third-year graduate engineering student the difference between the...

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Storming the Bureaucratic BASTILLE

These headlines in UP newspapers show that the power of governance has at last reached the doorstep of the common man, never mind...

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Gross inequality of income earners

The standard deduction provision should be applicable to salaried individuals who indirectly incur expenditure for earning income Income tax can be a very...

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Urban cowboy or arm of the law?

The occurrence, and routine acceptability, of encounter killings stem from both politicization and a colonial legacy An Ahmedabad metropolitan magistrate has held that...

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Netting the big fish isn’t easy

The Lokpal Bill’s repeated failure to become law is one of many instances of the clout of corrupt public servants In recent weeks,...

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Who’s the biggest Trojan?

Flawed EVMs or money power, the Election Commission is simply shutting its eyes to solutions Weeks before the election to the 15th Lok...

Governance

What’s wrong with NREGA?

The thing to do is to pay people fully and involve them in creating something permanent for themselves It was late 1972. Maharashtra...

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Voting for the lesser devil

The quality of governance derives from the quality of political leaders but the voter has little choice, or does he? The World Bank...

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Organized anarchy

Lumbering along in its unique way, India has progressed but not on the social front At 62, India is hardly a senior citizen...

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No meat in your policies, Pranabda

 There is little in the Budget to fulfil the stated goal of re-energizing government so how will it happen? Presentation of the annual...