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

26 October 2009 ~ Comments Off on And now a CMO…

And now a CMO…

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And now a CMO… Inspired no doubt by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and, horror of horrors, Mayawati’s UP, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has established a Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) to oversee and speed up developmental work in the state. Apparently, it’s been a pet project of Buddhadeb-babu but, understandably, met with some […]

23 October 2009 ~ Comments Off on Dilli’s new bookworms

Dilli’s new bookworms

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Dilli’s new bookworms It is rarely that Delhi really notices a book. The “Death of a Moneylender” by Kota Neelima was an exception. It touched a chord perhaps because it deals with the extremely brutal financial situation in rural Bharat – far from Dilli and Mumbai, and therefore exotic (?). Though written as a work […]

12 October 2009 ~ Comments Off on Beneath the surface

Beneath the surface

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Beneath the surface For some time now the steel ministry and the ministry of mines have been tussling over the minutiae in the proposed amendment to the Mines and Minerals Scientific Development and Regulation Act. While the former wants to exercise control over mine releases in order to ensure captive mines to the “meritorious end […]

07 October 2009 ~ Comments Off on Why is Dilli fiddling?

Why is Dilli fiddling?

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Why is Dilli fiddling? International anxiety over Delhi’s state of preparedness for the Commonwealth Games next year has raised considerable heat. Most of the stadiums and venues are clearly woefully behind schedule, despite Suresh Kalmadi’s glib defence and the Dilli sarkar’s protestations to the contrary. Amid the recriminations in the media and elsewhere, Commonwealth Games […]

02 October 2009 ~ Comments Off on Babus love Delhi

Babus love Delhi

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Babus love Delhi Could be that Gujarat and West Bengal represent two opposite ends of the political spectrum, but babu-watchers have noted an interesting trend in the two states. While in West Bengal, babus are leaving in a steady stream to the greener pastures of Delhi, in Gujarat some babus, who are currently on Central […]

22 September 2009 ~ Comments Off on Protecting RBI’s turf

Protecting RBI’s turf

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Protecting RBI’s turf RBI Governor D. Subbarao set a precedent of sorts when he publicly disagreed with the Finance Ministry. The nation’s money man from Mint Street veritably bristled at the idea of a super regulator, proposed by the Finance Ministry. Subbarao’s concern to protect RBI’s turf places him at odds with the view currently […]

21 September 2009 ~ Comments Off on A RAW deal?

A RAW deal?

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A RAW deal? The cloak-and-dagger outfit of the nation also known as the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) is in the limelight for the wrong reason. There is discontent within the ranks and it sees to stem from the recent promotion of a junior IPS officer who supersedes seven additional secretaries from RAW’s internal cadre, […]

14 September 2009 ~ Comments Off on Natural reforms

Natural reforms

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Natural reforms A year after an expert panel’s submitted recommendations for reforms in the coal sector, the government has finally decided to set up a regulator along the lines of ones in the insurance and telecom sectors. Instituting an independent regulator was a key recommendation, among others, of the K.S. Parikh panel set up by […]

08 September 2009 ~ Comments Off on What will BJP do?

What will BJP do?

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What will BJP do? Despite the Ambani brouhaha and an after-YSR furore, Dilli is obsessed with the collapse of the BJP. The bloodletting seems to be over, for now, though it is not yet clear what survives among the debris. It does seem like Nagpur calls the shots. In Maharashtra, of course, the state election […]

01 September 2009 ~ Comments Off on Imperial Delhi

Imperial Delhi

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Imperial Delhi The book launch of Malvika Singh’s “Delhi” was refreshingly raucous. An intellectual and substantive book it is, but had a launch attended by a rather combustible mix of politicians, bureaucrats and media personalities. It was naturally house-full at the Imperial. The book was released by the PM’s wife Mrs. Gursharan Kaur and our […]

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