September 17, 2018
The State should be absolutely citizen-centric and go all out to make people’s lives comfortable through efficient delivery of services to them. Ease of living is what a State must ensure for every honest and hardworking citizen at any cost : Sarvesh Kaushal Former Chief Secretary, Punjab ————————— Full text of interview: ————————— * Q: […]
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 “Anticipations of Feminism – Exploration of the Feminine Psyche in the works of Fanny Burney, Jane Austen and George Eliot” lead to award of […]
Read MoreAugust 12, 2009
I had named it ‘Good Morning’. A Gurkha family living in the servant quarters of my neighbour’s 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 […]
Read MoreJuly 30, 2009
With the much valued media freedom having reached its acme and even extended itself to crude intrusions into private grief, ailment, distress and such personal matters which are ordinarily of no interest to the public, many questions agitate a thinking mind despite inherent respect for the institution. Basking under very weak defamation laws and their […]
Read MoreJuly 25, 2009
Annual confidential reports, with the passage of time, are no longer annual or confidential, or true evaluation reports. A number of All-India officers find their annual reports recorded after a delay of years and years while the service and political superiors sit over them to hold extra-legal strings vis-à-vis the officer reported upon. Confidential they […]
Read MoreMay 6, 2009
Rather than striking at the roots of the problem, there is of late an increasing trend to render superficial legal remedies and lip service to deep rooted socio-economic challenges. Instead of embarking upon an effective systemic correction, knee jerk responses to the tragic reality of female feticide are akin to applying cosmetic remedies to a […]
Read MoreMay 6, 2009
The divine word pertains to the world of the heart and the soul, and not the letter of the law which suffers mortality either at the hands of the selective investigating agencies, or slips into a coma amidst jugglery of eloquent words performed in the courts by the master court-craftsmen. Any civil society hates moral […]
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