Month: July 2015

Obituary

Buch: A role model for bureaucrats

MAHESH Neelkanth Buch, a diminutive Gujarati bureaucrat from the Madhya Pradesh cadre, stood much taller than even the tallest of the Indian Administrative...

First Stirrings

First Stirrings : Learning the value of trust

IT was early in his career that Yogendra Narain, a 1965 UP-cadre IAS officer, learnt the value of winning the trust of his...

Governance

Modi’s Gambit

TALKING about corruption is a favourite Indian pastime. It is a topic that never seems to turn stale, or tire or bore anyone....

Cover Story

Delhi in disarray

Right through May and early June, the confrontation between Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung held centrestage. Editorials, prime-time...

Cover Story

The importance of being Arvind Kejriwal

THE recent developments in Delhi are a textbook case study of how a Union Territory should not be administered. The ‘shock and awe’...

Bric a Brac

Backroom boys of RSS

THIS time around, the RSS does not want to skip any chance to understand the government well and penetrate the system. Work has...

Bric a Brac

CM’s missing ink

THERE has been an uproar in Haryana regarding the alleged corruption of the former Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, so gfiles tracked the...

Bric a Brac

Social media guru

WHEN news flows every second, from television to approximately 300 social networking sites and thousands of newspapers, it is very difficult to track...

Bric a Brac

Modi on call

WHEN Narendra Modi is not visible on social networking sites, what is he doing in South Block? Perhaps Modi does not want to...