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.
November 22, 2011
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Does corporate culture sidestep women?
For all the talk of gender justice, gender equality and the like, it is still a man's world. Witness the Sisyphean labour into which even powerful spokespersons of women in India belonging to poli...
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November 21, 2011
Freebies are tearing into TN finances
To expect the Centre to pick up the bill for all the freebie items which could have waited for a better balance- sheet is a bit much.
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November 20, 2011
Failure of financial supervision
This piece is in continuation of my previous column, “In G-20's cloud cuckoo land” (Business Line, November 18). Shorn of long homilies and nebulous verbiage, the reason for the occurrence...
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November 17, 2011
In G-20's cloud cuckoo land
The rationale for the heads of self-styled G-20 countries trooping periodically into the various tourist spots of the world to hold non-meetings for a couple of days and disperse after issuing a c...
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November 15, 2011
Déjà vu at the TN officials' conference
The reports of the meeting on November 13-14 of the Tamil Nadu district revenue and police officials addressed by the Chief Minister, Ms J. Jayalalithaa, give one a sense of having seen and heard...
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November 13, 2011
Financing infrastructure in India
Aresearch paper under the above title, coming out of the IMF stable, opens the window to some new thinking of relevance to the efforts India is making to find resources of the order of one trillio...
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November 10, 2011
Winning the war for talent
The war for talent has intensified — round the globe, and in India, across every field and every profession. Attrition is up, loyalty is down, if not out. Organisations are desperate to find and k...
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November 8, 2011
Citizens' right to grievance redress
The Citizens' Right to Grievance Redress Bill, 2011, published by the Union Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances for ascertaining the comments of the public, is a truly salut...
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November 6, 2011
Bonding for peace is the only way
Is a repeat attack on India still a live option in China's strategic calculations? No security analyst on the Indian side dares to say no. So deep is the hurt to the Indian psyche caused by the 19...
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November 3, 2011
Indian and Chinese sagas can run in parallel
Just as there are Generals who are fighting the last war, there are those in charge of running countries who are still preparing for a world that is on its way to extinction. That explains their i...
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