Month: April 2014

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By the Way

His Master’s Voice

No Chief Minister does any “real” work by himself. In every Chief Minister’s office, there are pawns who implement the desires and wishes...

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By the Way

Inner democracy!

We all know that the bureaucracy is like a tight-knit family with little space for outsiders. If left to their designs, no outsider...

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By the Way

Figurative exercise

There is always a lot of discussion on the poor recovery from the Customs and Central Excise Department, but nobody has pondered till...

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By the Way

Ups and downs

Most departments are in status quo mode till the elections are over but not the Finance Ministry where a lot of changes are...

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Perspective

Faith is not cultivated

A lament one often hears is that today’s generation is not religious, that it does not share the same beliefs of an earlier...

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Stock Doctor

Keep an eye on the risks

BY the time you will read this column, the election process would be well under way. What is encouraging about the way this...

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Silly Point

A secret interview with Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi gave a TV interview to Arnab Goswami. His performance was widely condemned. Since then, Rahul has been advised to avoid TV...

For fear of contempt of court, grievances against the judiciary are either not aired or not redressed
My Corner

Transparent Judiciary : Need of the hour

CONTEMPT of court! These three words every judge would love to use whenever he feels that the person in front of him, or...

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Advertorial

Whither Advertising Agency?

AS a college student at the University of Delhi, I always looked at the world of advertising as a factory for building dreams....

In the eye of the storm: Former Army Chief General VK Singh
Governance

Meddling with national security?

SOME weeks ago, a group of Kashmiri students in Meerut were slapped with sedition charges just because they cheered the Pakistani cricket team...