Dilip Cherian

Mar 31, 2010
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Dilip Cherian

Dilli Ka Babu

Babus vs maya

Working fear

In ordinary times reshuffles and transfers in ministries rarely raise eyebrows, but these are clearly not normal times for babus. In the aftermath of the 2G scam and the Anna Hazare movement, which have consumed some rather high-flying babu careers, fear stalks the babudom. The petroleum ministry is one ministry which, babu

Servants of people

Politicians may be thick-skinned when it comes to complaints from their constituencies, but are extremely touchy when it comes to a “perceived” lack of respect and courtesy from their bureaucratic underlings.

Caught in the loop

Yet another babu has unwittingly been sucked into the 2G quagmire. Nine years after he retired as telecom secretary, Shyamal Ghosh, a 1965-batch IAS officer of the Gujarat cadre, has been named in an FIR filed by the Central Bureau of

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Welcome change

RTI activists often complain about the disproportionate number of former bureaucrats who become information commissioners after retirement. Ever since the Central Information Commission came into being in 2005, the tribesmen have bagged the key posts of information commissioners and even Central

Minority interest

The exodus of three senior bureaucrats from the ministry for minority affairs seems to suggest that the government needs to consider appointing babus with an interest in the social sector to implement its welfare programmes. Recently, sources say, three joint secretaries handling minority welfare chose more

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Street lingo as officialese? Hinglish may be how most of us communicate, but for decades the government has insisted on the use of “shudh” Hindi or English by its babus.

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Toiling Babus

In the hot seat

The much-awaited Pulok Chatterji is back at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) as principal secretary to the Prime Minister. Though familiar with the corridors of power, Mr Chatterji has returned at a time when the UPA sarkar is reeling under

Caste loyalties

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati is not fazed by the absence of a police chief in her state. Director general of police Karamvir Singh retired in August, and since then the charge of the nation’s second-largest police force has been held by director general of police R.K. Tewari.

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