Eyes Wide Shut

I have spent almost four decades in government. But in my knowledge, never before has a campaign to introduce and spread ethics in...

ByPrabhat KumarSeptember 12, 2018

A new chapter was recently added to the old debate on the relationship between the political executive and the senior bureaucracy when the...

ByPrabhat KumarAugust 17, 2018

WHAT started as a proposed idea has now emerged in a concrete form with the Department Of Personnel and Training issuing an advertisement...

ByPrabhat KumarJuly 16, 2018

SWOOSH! Another civil service day has just passed like an ephemeral shower of April. Nothing seems to have changed a bit in government....

ByPrabhat KumarMay 18, 2018

IT is widely believed, and not without substance, that the recent large scale replacement of currency has caused avoidable distress to the small...

ByPrabhat KumarFebruary 14, 2017

WHEN we are confronted with the evidence in any matter, for example a personal or a political issue, the cognitive process in our...

ByPrabhat KumarJanuary 14, 2017

I N the foreword to the White Paper on the ‘State of Law and Order in Delhi’ that was released to the media...

ByPrabhat KumarDecember 16, 2016

WORKING on the concept of institutional ethics as a possible solution to the menace of corruption in government, the IC Centre for Governance...

ByPrabhat KumarNovember 14, 2016

IN the last seven decades, innumerable studies on civil services have been conducted from time to time. They have been read, commented on...

ByPrabhat KumarOctober 17, 2016

IT is a tale of two cases in quick succession, where two senior civil servants were put on trial for alleged acts of...

ByPrabhat KumarSeptember 15, 2016

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