Tracking Civil Services And Governance Since 2007

Reflections

Reflections

Culture of crisis

The first two pages I look at when The Economist arrives every week are the last two, the ones that carry the global...

Reflections

Delhi, whore city

One day, sometime in early 1977, a group of journalists was sitting on the lawn of Chandra Shekhar’s South Avenue flat. Ramnath Goenka...

Reflections

Bombay, 1964: Prohibition and its wake  

When common sense eludes lawmakers I came to Bombay – as the city was then called, and what I still call it –...

Reflections

Monkeying in Mussoorie

Our verdant Mussoorie campus is cohabited (along with officers, trainers and trainees) by around 400 rhesus monkeys. They are everywhere, foraging from dinner...

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Why everyone loves a good flood

How a bund was threatened not by water but by villagers seeking a deluge Floods always remind me of an experience which would...