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Unspecialized and rotating authority of civil service

Vishy KurugantiAugust 27, 20121 mins

In an earlier post, Rebooting IAS an essential part of Reforms 2.0 on my other blog, I had summarized a LiveMint article which outlined the key systemic problems with the IAS cadre. A few fixes have…

What the disgruntled young Anna supporter should do next

Vishy KurugantiAugust 27, 20122 mins

The Rebound (2009) – Pic courtesy movieposterdb.com [Editor’s Note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series – my latest take on the India Against Corruption (IAC) movement, also called Anna Hazare…

Falling in love with the Anna Hazare Movement

Vishy KurugantiAugust 26, 20123 mins

Anna Hazare [Editor’s Note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series – my latest take on the India Against Corruption (IAC) movement, also called Anna Hazare Movement. By ‘latest’, I mean it was written…

Madhu Kishwar on nuanced positions and polarizing/predictable media

Vishy KurugantiAugust 21, 20123 mins

Madhu Kishwar (Pic: courtesy worldsikhnews.com) Confession: I’m becoming a bit of a Madhu Kishwar fanboy. If you haven’t heard of Madhu Kishwar (social commentator, activist, and Manushi editor), be…

Daily Dose of Sanskrit from Mysore Miracle Man

Vishy KurugantiJuly 27, 20122 mins

Panini, Sanskrit Grammarian from 6th Century BC (Pic: courtesy Wikipedia) Sanskrit and I have had a weird dalliance over the ages. When presented as a subject during my middle school days, I…

Why language matters in India

Vishy KurugantiJuly 15, 20121 mins

Pic: courtesy upenn.edu A few weeks ago we went roller skate shopping for our older son. We avoided all the fancy sports outlet chains (who only stock skates with integrated shoes – such a scam…

Errr… Could we stop the conversions please?

Vishy KurugantiApril 07, 20122 mins

This post has been in my Drafts folder for a whopping 20 months. I use ‘post’ loosely because when I picked it up today, it was just a collection of interesting story links and a provocative title…

Verghese Kurien’s answer to Lal Bahadur Shastri and the genesis for NDDB

Vishy KurugantiDecember 26, 20112 mins

This story (from Verghese Kurien’s I too had a dream) continues from Why Lal Bahadur Shastri wanted to spend a night in a Kaira district village. I assured the Prime Minister that all his observations…

Why Lal Bahadur Shastri wanted to spend a night in a Kaira district village

Vishy KurugantiDecember 19, 20112 mins

This story (from Verghese Kurien’s I too had a dream) continues from When an Indian Prime Minister spent a night in a village..unannounced..in 1964. He visited the huts of Harijans in the village. He…

When an Indian Prime Minister spent a night in a village.. unannounced.. in 1964

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 29, 20114 mins

There’s no better way to relate this story than to transcribe the relevant pages from Verghese Kurian’s I too had a dream. In 1964 the Kaira Union’s new cattle-feed compounding factory sponsored by…

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