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.
April 25, 2013
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No sign of India’s own media culture
While speaking at the Press Institute of India, Chennai, on “Self-regulation by the media”, I expressed the view, published by The Hindu (February 20), that readers of newspapers and televi...
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April 23, 2013
Applying peer pressure against graft
Not one Association or Union of public servants has come out with an unequivocal condemnation of corruption. »
April 21, 2013
Any takers for World Book Day?
Nobody knows the precise contribution the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is making in pursuance of its avowed objective of promoting peace and se...
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April 16, 2013
India and China must make bold moves
According to media reports, the first destination of the new Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang in the itinerary of foreign visits now being worked out will be India, and that too as early as in...
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April 14, 2013
Banalities in the guise of gyan
Economists of all schools of thought are agreed that psychological factors and intangible influences play a role as significant as hard facts and policy prescriptions in determining the level of c...
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April 11, 2013
The intolerant Indian
One of the greatest ironies of India is the ability of its people to live comfortably with the yawning gap between precept and practice. Indians are unbeatable when it comes to saying one...
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April 9, 2013
Iron Lady or ideological die-hard?
The records Margaret Thatcher created have no parallel. She was the first woman to head the Conservative Party and that too for the longest period of 15 years, leading it to victory in three succe...
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April 7, 2013
What makes for a good-looking career
I really wonder why US President Barack Obama had to take the trouble of phoning Kamala Harris — the first Indian American to be elected California’s Attorney General — to apologise to her for pub...
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April 4, 2013
We never seem to walk the talk
Time and cost overruns are a given.
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April 2, 2013
Those were the days
Yesterday I stepped into the 62nd year of entry into the Indian Administrative Service. Standing on this vantage point, what is the panorama of public service that I see unfolding before me? Am I...
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