The Uneasy Services

Tuesday 22 April '08

The day after Civil Services Day, we need to ask: Is the civil servants’ loud discontent really about money?

Drawing lines in water

Friday 4 April '08

The latest round of water wars has just been kicked off between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu in the run-up to polls in the former state. What is the way out in the absence of a mechanism to share water fairly, asks M. Rajivlochan

Band aid, in wrong place

Tuesday 4 March '08

With its Rs 600 billion farm loan waiver in the current budget, the government has applied some band aid to the financial haemorrhaging of India’s farmers.

No one asks the farmer

Thursday 17 January '08

Fresh from its electoral drubbing in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, the Congress party is eagerly embracing suggestions...

Bringing up babus

Saturday 29 September '07

Civil service reform has been much talked about. Now some things may be changing.

On water’s edge

Saturday 8 September '07

This month the Supreme Court is going to consider the Punjab Termination of Agreements Act (2004), the matter of control over head-works in Punjab and the issue of the Hansi-Butana canal.

Farmers and firefighters

Tuesday 28 August '07

It is heart-warming to know that the figures for farmers’ suicide in the cotton belt of Vidarbha have finally started registering a dip...