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ControversyGovernanceMandrin MattersUPSC Final Interviews: Merit or Caste?
Despite reservations, caste and economic backwardness cannot supersede merit. This is why the Union Public Service Commission’s latest decision to share the Caste...
Global ScanGovernanceMandrin MattersH1B Visa: Are Indians are going to benefit from the US visa renewal process?
With the debate over H1-B VISA holders, who are in large numbers from India, being drummed up to a crescendo by Republic (GOP)...
Mandrin MattersSunset for the Chogyal
Iwas having lunch when I got a call from Kewal Singh, the foreign secretary, asking me to report to him immediately. It was...
Mandrin MattersDiplomacy extraordinary
THE assignment to Fiji has been hazardous to Indian envoys at the best of times. For historical reasons, the envoys are looked upon...
Mandrin MattersA singular summit
SUMMIT meetings have become a standard feature of international diplomacy in the twenty-first century. Leaders meet each other with a frequency which is...
Mandrin MattersCivil servants, unite!
Babus have nothing to lose but their servility A group of us, including former civil servants, lawyers and other professionals, have set up...
Mandrin MattersReforming the IAS: Both challenge and opportunity
Two surveys on the civil services have come out in quick succession. One is an online survey, with 340 responses, that gauged...
Mandrin MattersCracking the whip
The Union Government has decided to wield the stick against IAS and IPS officers of the joint AGMUT cadre (formerly Union Territory cadre)...
Mandrin MattersThe donkey’s saddle
Or, a symbol of the feudal mindset of the Indian bureaucracy Ambassador Nigam Prakash (vintage 1966 IFS) tells this story about a souvenir...
Mandrin MattersFrom Punjab comes this tale of an exemplary career in government being cut short because a senior bureaucrat came up against the first...
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