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From overseeing planning of Pokhran tests to mending ties with the US, Pakistan and China, Brajesh Mishra implemented the foreign policy sketched out...
The whole truth regarding the 1991 reforms is that India was in the process of revamping its industrial and trade policies from the last years of...
The irony with PC Alexander was that when Indira Gandhi returned to power in 1980, she handpicked him as Principal Secretary and he became her...
The Morarji Desai PMO was divested of the IB, the R&AW, and the Foreign Investment Promotion Board. But the civil servants still looked up to V...
PN Haksar emerged as Indira Gandhi's ideological beacon and moral compass, playing a pivotal role in ‘Garibi Hatao’ and transformed her image from...
It’s ironic that the PMO, often accused of giving India a de facto presidential form of governance, was created by one of the most consultative...
I will challenge anyone and everyone who claims that the civil services don’t offer avenues for growth and innovation.
From 1947 until now, we as a nation have accommodated democratic aspirations by making necessary adjustments in our maps, boundaries, and special...
The last two decades of Lok Sabha elections saw UPA’s rise and fall, Left’s decimation, and BJP’s juggernaut. Now there’s a new law to choose...
Thanks to TN Seshan’s insistence, voter ID cards as well as annual electoral roll revisions became essential elements of the election process.
From Congress losing for the first time to TDP becoming India’s main opposition party, Lok Sabha elections from 1977 to 1989 brought many surprises.
In an incisive analysis of the 1971 Lok Sabha election, American political scientist Myron Weiner wrote that this was the first election fought on...
Over 960 million electors, 470 million of them women, will soon elect 543 Lok Sabha MPs by casting their ballots in 1.2 million booths overseen by 15...
National Judicial Appointments Commission and All-India Judicial Service exams both strike at the very root of dynastic self-perpetuation in the...
The situation is extremely complicated, and any decision taken by the MHA is bound to be criticised by the party that considers itself ignored.
DoPT has directed candidates to terminate their existing contracts with coaching centres upon receiving an offer of appointment. It’s a move toward...
With the imminent reinstatement of statehood for Jammu & Kashmir on or before 30 September, it's worth revisiting other states that have ‘evolved’...
At the time of the commencement of the Constitution, we had four types of states – Part A, Part B, Part C and Part D.
The lazy argument of how the regressive North was different from the progressive South hinges on a falling fertility rate. But this was shaped by a...
The limitations of guarding the international border with different state police forces became quite apparent after Pakistan’s 1965 military...
One of the most important points in Pakistan’s National Security Policy is the grudging acceptance of the name ‘Indian Ocean’.
SK Das of the 1973 IAS batch never spoke about what he did, even though I worked with him for over five years in the Uttarakhand government.
RBI decision to not reissue copper-nickel series of Re 1 and 50 paise coins brings the end of a long coinage history that started with 'phootie...
Shastri got the moniker ‘Little Sparrow’ at Anand Bhawan — Vijay Laxmi Pandit first called him by this name for he was quite diminutive.
How did 'Hindustan' become 'India'? It's not as simple as Mughals vs British.
ONORC enables migrants to claim foodgrain entitlements. It has expanded to cover over 800 million beneficiaries and has had a positive impact on food...