Dilip Cherian's Blog

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

15 March 2010 ~ Comments Off on Babus prepare to clam up

Babus prepare to clam up

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Babus prepare to clam up Even as transparency and accountability make inroads into babudom, thanks to activists armed with the Right to Information Act (RTI), senior babus are now preparing to batten down the hatches to protect themselves from “frivolous” complaints. Apparently, Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar has set up a screening committee to look at […]

08 March 2010 ~ Comments Off on Boom time for IPS

Boom time for IPS

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Boom time for IPS The Indian Police Service (IPS) officers have long vied for parity with their Indian Administrative Service (IAS) counterparts and the inter-service rivalry is one of the long-running battles in Indian babudom. However, the police babus may find they have less to complain about against their rival service in the present Manmohan […]

08 March 2010 ~ Comments Off on No babus for Nilekani

No babus for Nilekani

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No babus for Nilekani The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) may have got underway with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appointing former Infosys chief Nandan Nilekani to head the ambitious project, but my favourite tribesmen apparently are less than enthused about it. According to sources, Mr Nilekani who had said he preferred to have Indian […]

04 February 2010 ~ Comments Off on Blow hot, blow cold!

Blow hot, blow cold!

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Blow hot, blow cold! Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram is itching to implement the new internal security architecture that he’s worked out. But he has plenty to worry about on a shared resolve to fight the Naxal menace as there is a nascent challenge to his plans developing in Jharkhand. All signs emanating from the […]

03 February 2010 ~ Comments Off on Best laid plans…

Best laid plans…

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Best laid plans… After raising hopes, and much heat and dust, about hiring professional talent from outside the government sector, the government seems to be giving this particular idea a quiet burial. For when push comes to shove, especially while hiring heads of public sector undertakings or the regulatory institutions, the government has fallen back […]

03 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

The death of debate

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The death of debate or, Why attempts to reform debate in Parliament are misguided and why St. Stephen’s college’s attempts at the modernization of debate are both banal. There cannot be the remotest link between the two. But by some strange coincidence, they did collide. On the day when Parliament was being humiliated in public […]

28 January 2010 ~ Comments Off on Security and speculation

Security and speculation

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Security and speculation Speculation on the major move of the all-powerful National Security Advisor M. K. Narayanan to a gubernatorial position refuses to die down. This has been a subject of discussion several times before. Mr Narayanan has been a powerful aide of the Prime Minister and there are some who worry that this move […]

20 January 2010 ~ Comments Off on Clean-up time

Clean-up time

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Clean-up time Mumbaikars, you’d better not sweep this under the carpet or raise a holy stink! It’s time to come clean. The recently launched nationwide campaign on urban sanitation will place 441 class-I cities under the scanner of sanitary inspectors. They will be judged on the basis of their sanitation standards. We Dilliwalas have a […]

14 January 2010 ~ Comments Off on Tiger, tiger, burning bright

Tiger, tiger, burning bright

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Tiger, tiger, burning bright Tigers going extinct, is and ought to be our major national concern. And a visit to Ranthambore National Park in Rajasthan restores one’s realization that conserving nature and preserving our nature needs to be the highest priority for many reasons. Sighting a tiger in the wild, is a magnificent sight that […]

06 January 2010 ~ Comments Off on Mumbai’s water woes

Mumbai’s water woes

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Even as Dilli and the rest of the country mulls over a recent World Bank report that many Indian cities will run dry by 2020, Mumbaikars already have got a whiff of what’s in store. The decision of the Maharashtra government of not providing water to new high rise buildings in Mumbai until 2012 puts […]

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