Month: November 2015

By the Way

Envoy woes

More unsavoury details creeping out from South Block. Remember the case of Ravi Thapar, a 1983-batch IFS officer who was High Commissioner to...

By the Way

Whither Kejriwal the messiah?

Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Minister of Delhi, won the Assembly election with a thumping majority because all the downtrodden and SC/ST voters, including government...

By the Way

South Block’s strange shuffles

No good tidings from South Block, which houses the External Affairs Ministry. Even Secretary-level officers are unhappy with the way senior diplomats are...

By the Way

A jewel in the sarkar!

This is an affair the Chairman, Prasar Bharati, should respond to. When Prasar Bharati advertised in Employment News on November 15, 2014, two...

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Perspective

Play of Five Elements

ESSENTIALLY, the body is a play of five elements or pancha bhutas—water, earth, air, fire, akash. Everything you call a physical creation has...

GS-Sood
Stock Doctor

Increased volatility ahead

THE market is staring at a fresh set of uncertainties arising from both global and domestic developments. The three major worries on the...

Leisure

Frozen in time

ORCHHA’S grandeur has been captured in stone, frozen in time; a rich legacy of the ages. On this medieval city, the hand of...

Book Review

Book Review : Modi -The Man of the Moment

Shireen-tar az hikayate-e-maa neest qissa-e Tareekh-e-roozgar sarapa navishta em. No story is as sweet as mine, I have written all history from beginning...

First Stirrings

First Stirrings : Trustee of public interest

MUKUND BIHARI KAUSHAL (73) says he attended three schools in his life—government schools in places like Bareilly, Kanpur, Haridwar and Etawah and schools...

Governance

The case of the naughty neighbour

THIS is not a whodunit. So no prizes for guessing who the naughty neighbour is. Our problem with Pakistan is that we cannot...