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Mayawati’s Trishul

As a boy from a conservative Allahabad Brahmin family, growing up in Lucknow where father Triveni Sahai Mishra was a judge (later CJ...

Mandrin Matters

What a fall, my countrymen!

On August 15, India will complete Shastipoorthi, ie 60 years of independence. With the 1948 batch being its first, the Indian Administrative Service...

Tracking

Tracking August 2007

Vijay SinghThe 1970-batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh is the new Secretary in the Ministry of Defence. Christy Leon FernandezThe 1973-batch IAS officer...

First Stirrings

Prabhat Kumar : Bitter sweet journey

I took the civil service examination by chance. But I stood first in the country in the examination. During the interview, the UPSC...

By the Way

Our very own Bhupi Bhai of Haryana

In the corridors of power, it’s often not so much what’s in a name but behind it that matters. Take the case of...

Stock Doctor

Stock Doctor

The markets have shed a lot of flab and future direction is still unclear. International factors such as the impending US slowdown, the...

Mastermind

Maratha Machiavelli 

On May 15, 1998, Rajesh Pilot, P A Sangma, Tariq Anwar and Sharad Pawar were sitting in the latter’s house in New Delhi...

First Stirrings

‘Destiny made me serve the people of India’ Rajeshwar Prasad

the 1948 ICS topper recalls how a young nation took momentous decisions  Strange are the ways of destiny. Even though I had no...

Talk Time

Forged FIRs are registered for harassing IAS officers : Reva Nayyar

Reva Nayyar, a 1968 batch IAS officer from Haryana cadre, is a former president of the All-India IAS Officers’ Association. She retired in...

Milestones

A wizard in Nagaland

When R S Pandey assumed charge as chief secretary of Nagaland in June 2000, the state had schools where teachers played truant, hospitals...