Month: January 2018

anil-tyagi-editor-gfiles
From the Editor

From the Editor

THE majority of the country, especially the pundits, failed to realise that the ‘real’ change in the 2014 election wasn’t the emergence of...

Bitcoin-Crises-of-governance
Cover Story

Bitcoin – Fraud Coins

IT’S either the biggest fraud in financial history or the biggest revolution in human civilisation. In a few years, it will either trade...

Rahul-Gandhi
Politics

The makeover of Rahul Gandhi

WITH great power comes great responsibility. The Gandhi surname in politics comes with fame, fortune, power and a huge sense of responsibility. For...

Tracking

Tracking – February 2018

O P Rawat : The former 1977 batch IAS officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre has been appointed Chief Election Commissioner of India....

Narendra-Modi Indian PM
Politics

Presidential poll in Gujarat

THE presidential poll in Gujarat has just concluded. No, no, you will rudely interrupt, there was no presidential poll in Gujarat. It was...

Chief-Minister-Shivraj-Singh
State Scan

Why Gujarat result scares Shivraj?

Has the BJP high command reduced Shivraj Singh Chouhan to a pariah among Chief Ministers of the BJP-ruled States after the Gujarat election?...

Like-Aadhaar-and-EVM
Governance

The Choice is Clear: TECHNOLOGY or DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE?

FOUR years ago, this clarion, ‘Minimum Government, Maximum Governance’, reverberated from every electoral platform of a particular political party. Believing it to be...

virat-kohli-and-anushka-sharma
Governance

Governance : More than just celebration

REPORTS in the media surface occasionally about social functions like marriages, birthdays, anniversaries, etc., being performed on sea/air and at reputed places in...

Rita-Sinha- Film City Noida
First Stirrings

No Sir

IT was peer pressure that brought Rita Sinha—than Rita Kudwa—into Indian Administrative Service (IAS). She was pursuing masters in geography from Punjab University...

Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Abdul Kalam
Book Extract

Book Extract : Vajpayee is back

Janardan Thakur started his career in journalism with the nationalist Patna daily, The Searchlight, in December 1959. In his long and distinguished career...