Month: December 2017

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From the Editor

From the Editor

FIFTY-ONE years after the birth of Haryana State, on November 1, 1966, it is time to take stock of where it was, where...

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Haryana 51 Years

Haryana – 50 years and beyond

ON November 1, 2016, a gala event was organised at Gurgaon, now Gurugram, marking the Golden Jubilee of Haryana’s creation. Prime Minster Narendra...

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Haryana 51 Years

A Study in Leadership

I was Deputy Commissioner Hissar when Haryana was formed in 1966, and thus was with Haryana from the very beginning. My colleagues who...

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Haryana 51 Years

Lals of Haryana

NOTWITHSTANDING that Chaudhary Devi Lal’s ambition to be the Prime Minister was thwarted—he ending up as Deputy PM under VP Singh and Chandrashekhar—Haryana...

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Haryana 51 Years

‘My strength was that I never sought postings’

I was named by my mother, who was very religious. She named my brothers Sri Bhagwan and Ved Bhagwan. After one of them...

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Haryana 51 Years

Far away from home My Haryana days

AS a student of Economics in the 1950s at the southernmost tip of India, I was fascinated by the ‘Idea of India’ development...

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Haryana 51 Years

Haryana’s political journey

WHEN Haryana, or what was then known as South Punjab, was made a separate State on November 1, 1966, it hardly had anything...

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Haryana 51 Years

An affair to remember

THE idea of a career in the administrative services was not mine. I was barely 13 years old and about to give my...

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Haryana 51 Years

AIIMS Jhajjar – A beacon of hope for cancer patients

THE people of Haryana have so far lacked good healthcare facilities; either they had to go to Post-graduate Institute of Medical Education and...

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First Stirrings

Power to Serve

IT was Allahabad’s infectious pull for civil services that put Sharda Prasad, son of unlettered farmer parents in Alampur Geria village of Fatehpur...