October 30, 2018
Keeping in view the increasing trend of festival celebrations becoming a show of local political popularity, a time has perhaps come for the administration to strictly regulate and minimise the current scenario of a large number of multiple splinter congregations for celebrating festivals of mass participation in every city. It is extremely difficult and almost […]
Read MoreSeptember 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 MoreAugust 19, 2018
Sarvesh Kaushal making an in-depth presentation as Chief Secretary on behalf of State of Punjab before Lordships of the Supreme Court and of various High Courts in 2015.
Read MoreMay 15, 2016
I want to laugh, I want to cry. I want to feel good, I want to feel bad. I want to love, I want to hate. I want to enjoy, I want to suffer. I want friends, I want enemies. I want to curse, I want to praise. I want to read, I want to […]
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 Kaushal’s reference as author of some commemoration volumes titled ‘Essays presented to Sir Jadunath Sarkar’.
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 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 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 ‘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 […]
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