Month: August 2015

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

Governance

Resurgence of civil services?

GOVERNANCE is the main mantra of any government. As bureaucracy is the main agency of the government, it won’t be wrong to say...

Governance

The turmoil in technical education

RECENTLY, the HRD ministry put up in the public domain a hugely significant report that bids fair to rewrite the educational status of...

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Is India a ‘kleptarchy’?

WAY back in February 2002, I wrote an article in The Hindu titled “Is India drifting to ‘kleptocracy’?” It was in the context...