January 29, 2016
Stressing the need for punctuality and promptness by officers and officials in the Government Departments, Mr. Kaushal said that this is a prime requisite for creating a healthy environment and paving the way for speedy disposal of official work. He said that the CVOs must invariably check the attendance of the employees of all ranks […]
Read MoreJune 7, 2011
*Dr Anita Kaushal, Ph.D is Dean & Associate Professor in Post Graduate Government College for Girls, Sec 11, Chandigarh. A first class post graduate Gold Medalist in English, her doctoral research âAnticipations of Feminism â Exploration of the Feminine Psyche in the works of Fanny Burney, Jane Austen and George Eliotâ lead to award of […]
Read MoreFebruary 19, 2011
Manifestoes have increasingly been used in the recent past for seeking votes by promising moon to the electors. It is perhaps the tyranny of the electorate that compels the political parties indulge in abrasive display of one-upmanship in offering sop after sop with no holds barred. There is no provision in our laws to ensure […]
Read MoreJanuary 20, 2011
Thatâs what my politically confused wife said while holding a cup of bed tea precariously close to my snoring nose. I was taken aback as it was she who had over the years encouraged my morning stupor for the tranquility she looked for. âJago Sarvesh Jagoâ she said, âWe have stepped into the Jago Eraâ. […]
Read MoreNovember 16, 2010
Friends, if we do not deliver, we shall perish. For saving us as a class from virtual redundancy and eventual extinction from the overall scheme of governance, we need to focus upon quantum and quality of citizen service delivery. The day has come when instead of looking at the peripherals in the name of administrative […]
Read MoreAugust 17, 2009
Backbiting is one of the negative personality traits which almost all the humans suffer from. It has of late assumed the proportions of a social epidemic affecting the core of our materialistic minds. It is rape of fame through wicked tongue lashing. Why blame the tongue, it is the sick mind that drives it to […]
Read MoreAugust 16, 2009
Civil Service is exposed to whimsical experimentation and retribution like no other institution in our country. The famous gag enforced by its conduct rules will never allow its toothless members to put across its point of view without fear of inviting a backlash. Metamorphic attitudinal convulsions inevitably caused in the service fraternity by frequent transfers, […]
Read MoreAugust 16, 2009
A stage comes in a bureaucratâs life when creativity gets buried under the dunes of monotonous official and domestic chores. The tragedy of beingâ inÂconsequential angelsâ is writ large on the faces of those who once solemnly resolved to act as the catalysts of change. The idealistic individual gets haplessly sucked into the gutter of […]
Read MoreAugust 12, 2009
I had named it âGood Morningâ. A Gurkha family living in the servant quarters of my neighbourâs house had reared it. Meticulously punctual in waking me up at the first sign of twilight, it crowed deafeningly to throw me out of bed. The early morning alarm was at times very irritating, particularly after the late […]
Read MoreJuly 30, 2009
After almost two decades, I have an occasion to walk across the bank of Chandigarh Sukhna Lake. I realise that it is ageing faster than I do. Silt seems to have choked its arteries, while dry patches show up like a boney rib-cage. It has gone pale. Its pristine glow is missing. Deforestation in the […]
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