Month: April 2017

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State Scan

1968 batch IAS officers reacted on the lynching of Pehlu Khan at Alwar, officers wrote an open letter to Rajasthan Chief Minister

To, Ms. Vasundhara Raje, Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Jaipur. Dear Ms. Vasundhara Raje, We are very disturbed by the lynching and murder of...

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From the Editor

From the Editor

Gfiles has completed 10 years of publication. With this issue, we embark on our second decade. It is an achievement in which we...

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Cover Story

Cover Story : Congress-Future Tense

Why did the 125-year-old Congress party get decimated to 44 Lok Sabha seats in the 2014 parliamentary elections? It did not happen in...

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Cover Story

Time for Rahul to go for a purge

PANDIT Dwarka Prasad Mishra, a two-term Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, who emerged as an effective power centre in New Delhi in the...

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Cover Story

Cover Story : Nitish or Mamata – Who’ll challenge Modi in 2019?

AS the dust settled, the fringe became the centre in Uttar Pradesh. Away from the duelling father and son, cleansed from the parties...

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Cover Story

Cover Story : In defence of Rahul Gandhi

THIS is an odd time to spring to the defence of Rahul Gandhi. But when the whole nation is going gaga over the...

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Governance

Governance : A decade of paradoxes

IT was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of...

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Governance : Writing for a decade… in vain?

FROM the second issue of gfiles, I have been writing in almost all issues, mainly on governance and civil services. I have lost...

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Governance

Governance : Single tax a Utopian dream

“In the interest of the prosperity of the country, a King shall be diligent in foreseeing the possibility of calamities, try to avert...

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Governance

Governance : Reforming the Income-Tax Act

IN an era of voluntary compliance under the Income Tax Act, 1961, where nearly 99 per cent of income-tax returns are being accepted...