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Dilip Cherian Blog Dilip is considered India's foremost Image Management guru and resident iconoclast. He wavers between irrational exuberance and cataclysmic gloom but can be influenced at mail@dilipcherian.com

08 June 2010 ~ Comments Off on Spot of bother

Spot of bother

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Spot of bother Besides the soaring mercury, Dilli is also simmering about Canada denying visas to several retired and serving defence officers. The episode has created a serious diplomatic incident as inquiries have revealed many more such instances in the past when Indian citizens were refused visas on grounds that their organisations were “engaging in […]

24 May 2010 ~ Comments Off on Promoting fair play

Promoting fair play

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Promoting fair play The government is keen to rectify an action which had resulted in several babus losing their chance for promotion. In the recent past at least 50 joint secretary-rank babus had to approach the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) after losing out on their promotion and being forced to work under junior officers because […]

18 May 2010 ~ Comments Off on Gill’s googly

Gill’s googly

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Gill’s googly Stoic Manmohan has his methods in his silence. The row triggered by Sports Minister M.S. Gill’s order on fixing the tenure of members of the various sports federations and the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) may have escalated to the Prime Minister’s Office but there is no give there. Having cast the first stone, […]

17 May 2010 ~ Comments Off on Emergency ward

Emergency ward

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Emergency ward The only thing surprising about the arrest of Ketan Desai, the supra-babu type president of the Medical Council of India (MCI) really was why the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) took so long to arrest this man. Over the years information had been pouring in from all over to the CBI against Desai. […]

03 May 2010 ~ Comments Off on Second thought

Second thought

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Second thought Union Human resource development (HRD) minister Kapil Sibal apparently has abandoned his rather reasoned opposition to the appointment of career babus to top positions in education. Until last year, the HRD minister was convinced that he preferred educationists in education over bureaucrats, but in recommending Avinash Dikshit, a 1986 batch officer of the […]

20 April 2010 ~ Comments Off on Staffing issues

Staffing issues

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Staffing issues The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet decided to set a ceiling for the number of years officials can work on the personal staff of ministers. According to the new rule a ceiling of 10 years has been prescribed beyond which an official may not be permitted to be appointed in the personal staff […]

20 April 2010 ~ Comments Off on Nervous at the top

Nervous at the top

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Nervous at the top The UPA has had a good run so far in its second avatar. But, inevitably, as we have seen in the past, the Prime Minister’s long foreign trips often throw up local fracases. His healing type of no-comment very often douses flames before they become conflagrations. Digvijay’s comments from America, while […]

14 April 2010 ~ Comments Off on Bye to austerity?

Bye to austerity?

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Bye to austerity? The austerity drive that forced mantris and babus to give up comforts like executive class travel and five-star facilities is being wound up. Sources say that the government, buoyed no doubt by the receding recession, is now preparing to loosen its purse strings. Apparently, Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrashekar, has already informally briefed […]

06 April 2010 ~ Comments Off on Agents of insurance

Agents of insurance

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Agents of insurance Delhi and specially Congresswallahs know that behind every successful man is a woman. This saying now holds true especially in the case of babus from Madhya Pradesh who were nabbed by income-tax sleuths recently. In many cases, the sleuths discovered, the wives of the babus were working as insurance agents, a useful […]

30 March 2010 ~ Comments Off on A spot of grease

A spot of grease

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A spot of grease Sarthak Behuria, who retired as chairman of Indian Oil Corporation last month after being denied an extension, has now joined another state-owned joint venture, Petronet LNG, as an advisor, a post which did not exist until now. Naturally, the buzz surrounding the affair has not died down. Informed sources say that […]

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