Babudom gets ready for new PM with status note

The Cabinet Secretariat has prepared a status note for the new, incoming government giving five major thrust areas out of the various issues national and international importance that......

Probe into trusts: Does Modi plan to arrest Rahul?

'Harassment' is the objective, not detention. IMAGE: Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi, the Congress MP from Wayanad.   The inter-ministerial committee announced by the......

Mines secretary's removal shocks entire babudom

Dr Viswapati Trivedi, secretary, Union Ministry of Mines, has been abruptly shunted out without prior intimation. It seems the UPA II does not have a uniform personnel policy but has turned out to......

Coming soon: Gujarat model to Delhi's Babudom

It is clear Modi wants to establish a direct hotline with the bureaucracy, bypassing the ministers, just like in Gujarat where the bureaucracy ran the show and the babus were given a free hand to......

When will we get freedom from babudom?

The recent decision of the Karnataka government to ban iron ore exports once again points to the unholy nexus between the neta (leader), the lala (businessman) and the babu (bureaucracy).......

Will the real Mr Modi please stand up?

Human memory about policy issues is short.That alone can explain why many are deliriously happy with his latest slogans and ignore seven years of poor 'doing business' climate, taxtortion,......

'Babudom has successfully checkmated Modi'

'Under UPA only criminals flourished, during NDA nobody is flourishing' 'Modi should have offered VRS and reduced babudom by 50%' 'Unless the babudom asura is slayed and buried, 2019 will be very......

Modi should focus on wealth creation, not wealth distribution

'When you start distributing wealth, you end up distributing poverty.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Where is India's economy heading? After more than 100 days of lockdown, have the......

Naseer, Om, AB pay respects to Amrish Puri

Amrish Puri, whose eldest brother Madan Puri was a wellknown actor, initially screentested for a hero's role in 1954. But he did not get the part. His first movie was Sunil Dutt's Reshma Aur Sheera......

Jayaprakash Narayan deserved better

They don't make men like that anymore. A quintessential anti-establishment man, Jayaprakash Narayan courted officialdom's wrath in life. Twenty-five years after his death, he has again made the......