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A step towards ‘minimum government’?
RUMOUR is the grist of bureaucracy. It breaks bureaucratic monotony and adds a little excitement in the otherwise drab world of contributing to...
7TH PAY COMMISSION How full are the coffers?
BETWEEN 2003-04 and 2007-08, it was boom time for the Indian economy. Propelled by stupendous growth in manufacturing, transport, communication and construction, the...
Cover Story : Then and now (or, is it now and then?)
TWENTY-FIVE summers ago and it already appears like historical fiction-a time and age without internet and mobile phones, STD after 10 pm (the...
Cover Story : From JNU to Establishment
THE JNU Students Union lost its resolution in favour of Mandal reservations in the University GBM held at the Jhelum Lawns on August...
Roopkund Rendezvous
Slipped on the mattress of Muscular contraction into the sunny flight of diesel and love. Heavyness of the spine along timid shoulder blades,...
56th FC at LBSNAA
It was a long-long time ago. A disparate bunch. Bright, bespectacled, buoyant. Beautiful in their collective swell Of belief. As game changers We...
Impressions
4,00,000 starry-eyed Indians, we are informed, applied for the Civil Services this year. How many of them know, we wonder, that the successful...
Coming Together of Young, Bright and Passionate Minds
IT seems just like yesterday, when on August 19, 1990, I boarded the overnight bus from ISBT Delhi to Mussoorie. The journey, though...
Look behind as well as beyond
THERE were many attachments during the 56th Foundation Course (FC). While we were in the midst of villageattachments spread over northern India, we...