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.
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A puzzle without answer
Strangely, scamsters are unmindful of rising anger against corruption.
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May 16, 2013
Give Digvijay Singh his due
Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh has been getting a raw deal from the media. He has been the victim of its sarcastic barbs as if he is some sort of a buffoon who shoots his mouth o...
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May 14, 2013
The Prime Minister should resign
The continuance of Manmohan Singh in office as Prime Minister has become indefensible. I should not be mistaken as toeing the holier-than-thou Opposition line: The BJP, in particular, is i...
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May 12, 2013
Fighting Western intellectual bias
The field of management studies has its own hagiology and demonology. Management coinages keep shuttling between the two. What is enthroned today bites the dust tomorrow and vice-versa<...
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May 9, 2013
Are there problem employees?
One of the staples of any tome on management is a discourse on dealing with problem employees. It usually figures in a setting that includes organisational culture and behaviour on the one side an...
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May 7, 2013
Paradox of Indian philanthropy
TheKnowledge@ Wharton (K@W) Web site of March 21 gives an incisive as well as revealing account of the state of philanthropy in India. It is well worth visiting by every netizen and member...
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May 5, 2013
Overkill over a meeting
Even assuming that the ‘status report’ underwent modifications after a review by the Law Minister, there need be no impropriety, if those changes were effected after an open discussion among those present.
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May 2, 2013
When will China grow up?
China has cultivated its bewildering habit of doing the wrong thing at the wrong time in the wrong manner into a veritable fine art. An ancient civilisation, a repository of many achievements in i...
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April 30, 2013
Hold civil service top brass to account!
In the manner the PMO has evolved and functions, it is now a bloated bureaucracy whose minions clutter up the processes of decision-making. »
April 28, 2013
India’s repulsive political culture
Just picture in your mind’s eye a function organised by the concerned parties to inaugurate a Library and Research Centre housing references and memorabilia pertaining to, say, the period...
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