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B. S. Raghavan joined the West Bengal IAS cadre in 1952 and was the Commissioner of various Departments. He also served as the Chief Secretary of Tripura. He was Director, Political and Security Policy Planning in the Union Home Ministry and the Secretary, National Integration Council during the period of the first four Prime Ministers. He was a US Congressional Fellow and Policy Adviser to UN (FAO), and Chairman of three UN Committees. He has been chief executive of four major public sector enterprises. He is now a columnist and author, connected with social service and educational organisations.

May 24, 2012
Make CSR mandatory for India Inc
For this column, I have been surfing more than 50 Internet sites for the past couple of hours to get some idea of the figures and percentages of allocations for corporate social responsibili... »
May 22, 2012
Jayalalithaa's masterly tour de force
So, it's Purno Agitok Sangma, heading for the Rashtrapathi Bhavan, as its new occupant! What else can it be when a powerful, sharp, smart, effective and influential personality like the... »
May 20, 2012
Red herring, or the real cause?
I am kicking myself for being dense beyond description. For, whichever economic or financial Web site I go to, I simply see no proximate or even distant connection between the predicament of Greec... »
May 17, 2012
Military and governing class at war
Much of what I am going to write in this column about the alarming alienation between the Defence Forces and the civilian hierarchy is based on what I have heard from reliable sources and the cont... »
May 13, 2012
Row over cartoon in NCERT textbook
Let me quickly disclose where I stand on the row that erupted in Parliament over the inclusion of Shankar's cartoon of 1949 in a text book for 11th class students published by the National Council... »
May 10, 2012
US adopts West Bengal as ‘partner State'
An American write-up says in a light vein: “If you are not sure if you live in Texas, go outside and greet the first person you see with a loud, cheerful ‘Howdy pardner'. If (s)he responds in a po... »
May 8, 2012
Pranabda should stay out of Presidential race
If a week is too long in politics, two months are close to eternity. On that count, anything can happen between now and the announcement of the candidate(s) for the election of the President in Ju... »
May 6, 2012
New mode of resolving conflicts
Conflicts are the spice of life. Whether it is running a household or an enterprise, differences of opinion on the approaches, policies and courses of action to be adopted are inevitable. There can... »
May 3, 2012
Averting danger of NCTC's politicisation
I had concluded my last column on the Chief Ministers' meet on NCTC by earnestly urging that the agency should be made independent, like its US counterpart.But there is a snag in the propos... »
May 1, 2012
Making CMs' meet on NCTC productive
It is good news that it will be full house at the Conference of Chief Ministers on the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), called by the Home Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram on May 5. That those... »
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