We in India, especially the middle class, are quick to blame the street-level bureaucracy (SLB) for faulty implementation of what…
The match went down to the wire … ultimately, the winner was decided by the third umpire. No, I am…
Last week marked the 40th anniversary of the lifting of Emergency. The events are captured well in the first of…
The indifferent experience of a number of other states that launched Nutrition Missions based on the Maharashtra model is a…
We need to introduce competition, to the extent possible, in every sector of economic and social activity
Secession of urban India: Infra deficiencies widening gap between different social & economic strata
Be it electricity supply, access to drinking water, public health, safety, transportation or job opportunities, infrastructural deficiencies are leading to…
Until tolerance becomes a habit, we cannot claim India functions on the principle of rule of law
Every Indian should have access to banking channels where her money can be parked; and there should be ease and…
Governments, especially state and local, should pro-actively assess and list activities where their efforts will be positively boosted by private…
The petroleum ministry is trying to paint the offer of small oilfields as an attractive bait to private investors when,…
Combining responsive governance with the intelligent use of data in a systematic, disciplined manner and adopting a standard operating protocol…
The IAS and other services suffer from lack of professionalism and absence of domain expertise. Rather than squabble over short-term…
If the provisions of the draft revenue sharing contract apply in toto, bidding may not even take off
The cocktail of an unhealthy government-business relationship, antediluvian government processes and a sluggish rule of law does not augur well…
