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The Caravan is India’s most respected and admired magazine on politics, art and culture. With a strong literary flair, the magazine presents the best of reportage and commentary on politics, policy, economy, art and culture from within South Asia. It has become an essential read for anyone interested in understanding the political and social environment of the country.
This book is a modest attempt to seek an identity for Bharatiya Ways of Study and move away from the Western domination in social science. It attempts to negate the system of Euro-supremacist control and expose the dependence and unrelenting academic imperialism. It cautions against blind imitation without carefully testing against empirical realities of India to save the social sciences in general, and political science in particular, from possible bias. That is why this book aims at setting an alternative discourse in political science as against hegemonic discourse to diversify the outlook amenable to the historical and cultural context of India. Politics for a New India relies on objecti...
With reference to Indian parliament and state legislatures.
Contributed articles presented at the two seminars on same theme at Delhi in 2001 and in Gauhati in 2003 moderated by Astha Bharati and C-NES.
Compiled to identify both sound and unproductive practices while suggesting advancements for India's governance, this volume seeks to analyze India's efforts made towards progress and to eradicate corruption. Containing previous exemplary initiatives and information about public-domain tools, this resource deals with the perception of governance in India and its status in the monopolistic services including the four major ones--the police, judiciary, income tax, and property registration. This account also discusses citizens' charters, the right to information, e-governance, social audits, report cards, and the integrity pact as means for positive development.
Contents: Understanding Management, Planning as a Management Function, Organising as a Management Function, Staffing as a Management Function, Leading as a Management Function, Controlling as a Management Function, Environmental Issues and their Impact on Management, Conclusion.
This book captures some real-life scenarios where people bound by circumstances terminate their journey halfway. Being tired of failures, all their talents and aspirations get buried in the sands of time. Accepting it to be destiny’s cruel decision, they move from door to door with a begging bowl, desperately in search of a faint ray of hope: ‘Will the fortune ever smile on us?’ Some terrorists and trouble makers train and engage innocent boys in unlawful activities. The high sounding speech of the self-claimed servants of the people, on different occasions like Independence Day, Children’s Day, Martyrs’ Day, .. end up with some promises and assurances - far from reality. Dada Jiâ€...
Transcript of speeches and comments made in debates.
Part - I: Looking Back