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.
October 6, 2011
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When will India have its own Jobs?
Steve Jobs is dead. I wanted to make history by saying just that in this column and dramatically leaving the rest of the allotted space blank. I couldn't at first think of anything more to say....
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October 4, 2011
Feeling unequal in the midst of equals
The dimensions of the four simultaneous revolutions — Internet, information, communications and social media — sweeping the world are mind-boggling: More than two billion are on the Internet with...
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October 2, 2011
Modi as PM: The ifs and buts
The widespread recognition Gujarat, under Mr Narendra Modi as Chief Minister, has received in India and abroad, in ensuring effective service-delivery and corruption-free governance and a rising le...
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September 29, 2011
Explanation or exercise in self-delusion?
If indeed the attachment to the Office Memorandum is an inter-Ministerial background paper, it ought to have been distributed to all the participants, whereas the OM and its enclosure were clearly sent only to the PMO.
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September 28, 2011
Subtleties of bureaucratic practices
The Office Memorandum (OM) No.F.No.3/11/2011—Inf(Part) dated March 25, 2011 of the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), Ministry of Finance, sent under the signature of Dr P. G. S. Rao, Deputy Di...
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September 26, 2011
Factor the unthinkable into security plans
A time there was when security was construed in strictly narrow terms of protecting public figures or private individuals from being hurt, kidnapped or killed, or a piece of property from being da...
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September 23, 2011
Discordant voices on safety of nuclear power
Following the agitation, including mass fasting, by the people of Idinthakarai, the village adjacent to the Koodankulam atomic power project, who are in panic over the possibility of the occurrenc...
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September 21, 2011
Partisan barbs at Gujarat model unmerited
Rubbishing Gujarat is both unwarranted and self-defeating. Instead, the State's growth model should become a case study that can be replicated across the country.
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September 19, 2011
A shift away from mindless consumption
There has always been some degree of sharing by households and communities all across the globe of each others' good and bad fortunes, represented by facilities, amenities, services and goods, or t...
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September 16, 2011
Giving police a free hand is dangerous
There should be a provision in any police reform for independent checks to supervise its mode of functioning.
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