February 17, 2021
India has almost left the COVID-19 behind. It is now a challenge to synergise all positive economic forces for a revolutionary upturn in Indian economy. It is the time for path-breaking administrative reforms, pump-priming entrepreneurship, innovation and production processes in Indian economy through liberal financing, cutting the red-tape, delays and regulatory corruption. It is the […]
Read MoreNovember 20, 2018
What if I am not a Sikh myself, I am certainly a human, and, therefore, I am loud and clear in seeking death for 1984 Sikh genocide culprits. India should be rid of all uncivilised barbarians, high or low, who go on rampage on whatever pretext, killing Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus, Christians or anyone; and shred […]
Read MoreApril 28, 2016
THE SUNDAY SUNDRIES The other day, while interacting with officer trainees in Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration, I read out the Greek mythology related to Narcissus to trigger revulsion in their minds against the tendency to stare at a self-painted, self-flattering, make-belief reflection in their own minds about their own ultimate truthfulness, sincerity, […]
Read MoreApril 28, 2016
Felt nostalgic to find in Panjab University electronic catalogue my grandfather Professor Paras Ram Kaushalâs reference as author of some commemoration volumes titled âEssays presented to Sir Jadunath Sarkarâ.
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 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 […]
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 29, 2009
It is a fashion amongst the naive to wrongly perceive and lambast civil servants as guardians of secrecy. The hush hush image of senior civil servants is the result of the historical gag order enforced through the AIS Conduct Rules. Divulging information, expect in an impossibly rare scenario, renders a civil servant liable to disciplinary […]
Read MoreJuly 25, 2009
Terrorism has found its niche in the political scene worldwide. It has of late found its improvised manifestations in administration too. It all started in the recent times as a desperate autocratic response to long standing systemic evils in electoral process by T.N. Seshan by whimsically punishing civil servants with deterrent humiliation. The virus is […]
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