January 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
(This article was published as Editorial in the Punjab IAS Association Newsletter as a âcouter pointâ on the burning issue of unceremonial summary expulsion of Mr. V.K. Khanna from the membership of the Association in 1997) ********** I combat the dilemma of putting my thoughts either to the test of spontaneous subjectivity or to that […]
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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