by Seema Mustafa
The biggest reason for not re-employing retired bureaucrats, particularly after a spell out of power, is that they tend to remain stuck in time. In that if an official has retired in, say, 2000 and is re-employed in 2010, for (...)
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Doval and Narayanan: Peas in a Time-warped Pod
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Remembering J.P. Naik’s Experiments in Health and Education
9 September 2018by Vrushali Dehadray
J.P. Naik, the founder of the Indian Institute of Education, was the Adviser to the Government of India during the 1960s and the chief architect of the Kothari Commission Report which is still considered as a milestone in (...) -
Towards a Child-friendly World
9 September 2018by Paroma Bhattacharya
A child-friendly world is no utopian fable and well within our reach. For putting things into perspective let us first understand what a child-friendly world is. Simply put, it is a world where all children are free, safe, (...) -
Army Officers soliciting Judicial Protection during Operations in Good Faith
9 September 2018by Gautam Sen
In an unprecedented move, over 300 Indian Army officers have approached the Supreme Court of India on August 14 this year with a writ petition, posing a question on whether a soldier‘s discretion under operational conditions can be (...) -
Who Am I ?
9 September 2018I’ve lived here for a long time,
breathing its air, walking on its soil,
building up my life,
becoming a part of the neighbourhood—
a sense of being inseparable
embedded in my consciousness.
Now I’m told I don’t belong here;
my name does not (...) -
Editors Guild condemns Myanmar Court’s Verdict against Two Reuters Journalists
9 September 2018The Editors Guild of India condemns a Myanmar court’s verdict that has sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison after pronouncing them guilty of having breached the country’s Official Secrets Act.
The Guild is opposed to the (...) -
CPI Demands Modi Government’s Reply to RBI Disclosure
9 September 2018The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement on August 29, 2018.
The official information of the Reserve Bank of India that 99.3 per cent currency in circulation at the time of note ban has come back to (...) -
Looming Shadow of Fascism
2 September 2018POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
The time has come to call a spade a spade. The Modi Government can no longer be called just an ‘anti-democratic’ or ‘authoritarian’ government. It is fast becoming a fascist government. Suppression of all dissenting voices, (...) -
Tribute to Kuldip Nayar
2 September 2018On August 23, Kuldip Nayar, the tallest surviving pillar of our Fourth Estate, breathed his last in the Capital. Just sixteen days earlier he and his wife met me at a function at New Delhi’s India Internation Centre. As usual he warmly told me: (...) -
Kuldip Nayar Will also be Remembered for his Contribution to Social Movements
2 September 2018COMMUNICATION
Kuldip Nayar, the eminent journalist who breathed his last on August 23, will of course be remembered first and foremost for the remarkable continuity and extraordinary reach of his writings stretching over several decades but in (...)
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