Month: April 2015

By the Way

Alert for CVC

The Modi government is looking for a new Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC). We learn that there are 40 serious contenders for the post....

By the Way

Absence of equality?

How is it that the Department of Urban Development in the Delhi government has the most number of Dalit (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled...

By the Way

Marathon meet in Haryana

How will one feel, as a senior officer, when he is supposed to sit the whole day to attend a marathon meeting with...

By the Way

NDMC needs Chairman

The Home Ministry has been searching for a competent officer to replace Jalaj Shrivastva, a 1984-batch IAS officer of the AGMUT cadre and...

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Perspective

Spirituality with trees

A question I am frequently asked is, ‘Why is a mystic, a spiritual leader, planting trees?’ The reference is to Project Green Hands,...

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Stock Doctor

Slow, but steady

THE market is going through a very tricky situation with a lot happening on the policy front, including insurance and mining Bills being...

Book Extract

Indira’s comeback

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

Silly Point

The farce called electronic media

THERE was a time when Times Now claimed to be the most watched show on television. Arnab Goswami was touted as the most...

First Stirrings

Retired, but not tired

IT was sometime in the summer of 1985. Surrinder Lal Kapur, the 1960-batch IAS officer, the then Financial Commissioner (Taxation) in his home...

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From the Editor

From the Editor

THE arrival of 2015 observed a new churning on the political horizon of India. Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP outfit captured the throne of Delhi...