Why a group of officers will be shown the Hollywood film — Twelve Angry Men?

SELECT government officers will be shown a 1957 Hollywood film — Twelve Angry Men, as a part of the basic leadership skill programme, whereas some other officers will undergo an experiential learning exercise on character and competence titled Jog with The Pot, under newly-designed modules on leadership and ethics respectively. In fact, the government’s personnel department DoPT in collaboration with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has developed…

Why babu is as sweet as Barfi!, and bureaucrat a tongue twister

Barfi! is the new buzzword in the town. And this Anurag Basu film has been selected as India’s official entry for the Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category. This Rs 30-crore film based on a story of mute Murphy "Barfi" Johnson and his friendship with Jhilmil (Priyanka) and Shruti (Ileana), grossed Rs 62 crore in the first week of its release. Isn’t babu, a hated word for a few, is as sweet a word as Barfi!? BoI reproduces excerpts of an old piece on brand babu: