Editorial

Good Governance Need of the Hour

THE ENTIRE nation watched agape as the dharna drama unfolded on prime time TV in the national capital. The lead protagonists of the play were none other than Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his ministers and Aam Aadmi Party men and supporters. Thanks to the firm handling of the escalating c...

Cover Story

MAN OF THE MOMENT

The busiest official in Delhi, meet NAJEEB JUNG, the Lieutenant Governor and a perfect gentleman Jung , born at his ancestral home in 1951, was one of the four sons of his business man father and homemaker mother. “My father was a businessman initially. Post 1947, after the partition, he digresse...

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Law Minister or Outlaw?

Somnath Bharti’s fate hangs in AAP’s balance POLITICS// Barely a month into its rule, and Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP government is in the news for all the wrong reasons. The Chief Minister slept on the street in a dharna that ended in a ‘facesaver victory’ for him and his party and paid leave ...

French Police Investigate Crash

Schumacher ‘To Never Be Same’ ACCIDENT// French prosecutors investigating into the causes of Michael Schumacher’s skiing accident believe that the Former Formula One Champion was off piste, and did not try to reduce his speed just before he fell. Police investigators are still continuing to r...

Former Justice Loses Panel Seat

Jurist Blames Ganguly LEGAL// Even as the merits of an intern's allegation of sexual harassment against retired Supreme Court judge A.K. Ganguly are being hotly debated across the country, one casualty of the controversy seems to be the West Bengal Human Rights Commission which Ganguly headed. Taki...

Sunanda Pushkar Dead

Shashi Tharoor’s Political Future Uncertain DEMISE// It’s been more than 10 days since Sunanda Pushkar, partner of junior HRD minister Shashi Tharoor, was found dead under mysterious circumstances at The Leela in Delhi on Januray 17, 2014. Though Tharoor was given a clean chit in the death prob...

Social Agenda

Using LinkedIn to Get Ahead

It can be your passport to opportunities not just in lean times but at all times It’s a familiar and oft-repeated scenario. You’re unhappy in your current job and looking for a change, and that’s when go back to crafting and tweaking your LinkedIn profile which, ironically enough, hasn’t be...

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The Decline of Public Morality

Desperately seeking exemplary leaders IT IS CLEAR THAT the initial euphoria surrounding the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) rise to stardom has given way to a collective sense of bafflement at the recent antics of Mr Kejriwal and Co. Even as the media continues to forcefully showcase the Modi-Rahul conte...

Looking Back

PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST AS A MADMAN

A short interview with veteran, actor, lyricist and filmmaker Piyush Mishra An artist is one who lives in the world that he creates for himself. An artist is the most selfcentered person you will ever meet; there is a reason why most great artists die alone, in miserable conditions. There is a reas...

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Kitty litterateurs

A summary of broad personality types RECENTLY I SAW a funny email forward that compared hypothetical one-page diary entries written by two house pets—a dog and a cat. The dog’s entry was short, semi-literate and full of sunshine and cheer, with such exclamations as “Oh boy! A car ride! My fav...

Good Karma

Transforming Lives

SURE has transformed lives of several thousand rural women for the better by helping them understand the power of retail Since then, Founder and Director of SSP, Prema Gopalan, has been involved in disaster rehabilitation projects and in building the capacities of rural women’s collectives to acc...

Reading Room

Exposing the Blot on America

An expose of Japanese internment camps post the Pearl Harbour bombing in the USA THE EXECUTIVE Order 9066 signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, which took away the rights of 120,000 Japanese Americans and condemned them to life in internment camps remains a blot on the...

A Much Maligned Maharaja

A bold look at India’s corrupt PSU culture vis-à-vis Air India THE DESCENT OF INDIA into political sycophancy was complete in Air India. But that a foreign-based publisher like Bloomsbury should toe the line and withdraw a book on the monolith, that too in its second edition, is perhaps unpreced...

Hitchhikers Guide

Beckoning and Beautiful Bali

Come to Bali to connect with its vibrant culture Quick: what are the Hindu countries of the world? Everyone would say India; some would say Nepal, but Bali, the almost perfectly round island in the Indonesian archipelago would be left out. After spending almost two weeks there, I myself would not h...

Broad Canvas

Rooting For Her Art

An encounter with a danseuse with a difference T here was point in time when the waif-like Arushi Mudgal wanted to ride away on a cherry-coloured Scooty and be a pizza delivery woman. Then, there was the time when she wanted to study hotel management and be “any where but here”. The “here” ...