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Another-year-for-Sinha
By the Way

Another year for Sinha

The term of Cabinet Secretary PK Sinha, a 1977-batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, has been extended for one year more....

By the Way

Eccentric Barugaru

Sanjay Baru alias Barugaru is a seasoned professional (he was a journalist once upon a time). Many say that professionals generally don’t have...

Unease-after-Punjab-judgement
By the Way

By the way : Unease after Punjab judgement

There is considerable unease for all those retired civil servants who are still serving in the central and state governments as Principal Secretary...

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Silly Point

Silly Point : Blessed are the poor

THE cognoscenti who keep a sharp lookout on national events must have noticed with suppressed smiles the BJP’s deliberate effort at establishing poverty...

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Cover Story

Cover Story : Congress-Future Tense

Why did the 125-year-old Congress party get decimated to 44 Lok Sabha seats in the 2014 parliamentary elections? It did not happen in...

Governance

Governance : Writing for a decade… in vain?

FROM the second issue of gfiles, I have been writing in almost all issues, mainly on governance and civil services. I have lost...

Controversy

Ghost of Jignesh Shah

I have read Alam Srinivas’ critique of my book and must take the bull by the horn. As things stand, Jignesh Shah has...

Governance

The ABC Of 123: Piercing The Bafflegab

Over the last month the media has carpet-bombed the nation with a combination of news, views, editorials, opinions, snap polls, and instapunditry about...

Manmohan Singh and Ghulam Nabi Azad
Mastermind

Courting the king

When Dr Farooq Abdullah ruled Jammu and Kashmir, he was known to forcefully assert thathe and he alone was the Chief Minister. In...

Report Card

A HORN UNTOOTED

There is an increasing perception that this is a government in absentia unable even to project its most tangible achievements which there are...