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 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 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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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