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“Once the storm has passed Once the dust has settled down Who remembers the blood-sworn vow? The cloud serpent Again, steals...

A book written by PVRK Prasad IN MID -1990s, PVRK Prasad was one of the most influential bureaucrats in the Prime Minister’s Office (P...

“Ravina Shekhar starts off ‘Right Time’ from an overcrowded platform just like a newly announced train in the Railway Budget. As she chu...

Ravinder Kumar , 1984 batch Indian Railway Personnel Service (IRPS) officer and chief personnel officer of South Central Railways, is co...

ON SATURDAY, three books on Rashtrapati Bhavan containing various facets of the President’s estate, were released. Under Pranab Mukherje...

NOW a former IPS officer Kishore Kunal has come out with a 824-page book — Ayodhya Revisited , and also a new theory — Ram temple of Ay...

ON MONDAY , just a day before the Budget session of Parliament begins, officials of all finance ministry departments had a get-together ...

Ambassador Gurjit Singh WHO could bring veteran journalist Inder Malhotra, former media adviser to PM Sanjaya Baru and environmentalis...

AFTER ex-coal secretary PC Parakh, here is yet another ex-bureaucrat -- former disinvestment and telecom secretary Pradip Baijal – who h...

OVER two decades ago, present textile secretary and 1980 batch Manipur-Tripura cadre IAS Dr Sanjay Kumar Panda published an Oriya book on ...

WHEN 33 Indian diplomats who have collectively put in more than 1,150 years in Indian Foreign Service (IFS) decide to pen a book, the fi...

Cover photo of Harry Cohen's "Demonics of bureaucracy" COME Saturday, the Central government’s new initiative of stress...

THIS book written by a former diplomat and curated by an IAS officer is a ready reckoner for young diplomats. “Applied Diplomacy throug...

THIS photo shows former Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) Vinod Rai (standing left) with three UPA ministers: P Chidambaram...

A FORTNIGHT ago, the President of India received the first copy of the coffee table book titled Winged Wonders of Rashtrapati Bhavan th...

One Life Is Not Enough – Former diplomat K Natwar Singh’s new book will make a good fodder for gossips in Delhi’s corridors of power, at...

Pulok Chatterji (right) with Manmohan Singh IF Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s former media adviser Sanjaya Baru is to be believed, “a...

SANJAYA Baru , former media adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called PM’s adviser TKA Nair “a bureaucratic lightweight” who ex...

“High Performance with High Integrity” is a book authored by Ben W Heineman Jr and published by Harvard Business School Publishing. A rec...

ON Sunday afternoon, when NK Singh was trending in social media site, Twitter, initial reaction of many was like this: What controversy ...