Month: March 2015

Controversy

Was Mother Teresa a proselytiser?

THESE were the pearls of wisdom mingled with hatred that RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat dropped while inaugurating an orphanage and a women’s home...

First Stirrings

First Stirrings : City Architect

WHEN Brijesh Kumar of the 1968 IAS batch, Uttar Pradesh cadre, passed out of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, India...

Governance

Baby and the bath water

THE needs of the country and people are centred mainly on security issues (internal and external, food, water and power), social welfare programmes...

Security

Terrorism dilemmas

AS it threatens to strike at the very roots of India’s unity and internal security, ‘terrorism’ has indeed emerged as the biggest challenge...

Governance

Importing a nuclear albatross?

THE Indo-US nuclear jugalbandi (duet) commenced in July 2005 with then US President George Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signing an...

Governance

Back to Roots

ON January 22 this year, when Ashok Lavasa, Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests, visited Mahendragarh, an arid town in South Haryana where...

Scam

Defaulters make merry

Jab ishwar hai saath to dar kahe ka (When God is with us, why be afraid). This is the ringtone of the mobile...

Cover Story

Vyapam woes for Shivraj

MADHYA Pradesh has been no stranger to political swindles that shook successive Chief Ministers since the state was formed in 1956. But the...

Bric a Brac

Mayawati’s many addresses

BAHUJAN Samaj Party leader Mayawati has a penchant for properties and solitaires. She started her career from a small house in Inderpuri, Delhi,...

Bric a Brac

New spokesperson for Congress

THE question facing the Indian National Congress is: Who will be the new spokesperson? Ajay Maken has been appointed president of the Delhi...