India's military might, women power on full display at R-Day parade

India celebrated its 75th Republic Day on Friday with a grand display of 'Nari Shakti', rich cultural heritage and military might comprising missiles, warplanes, surveillance gadgets and lethal......

A bureaucrat for 'the little guy'

Rahul Khullar's guiding credo was that a civil servant must never lose sight of his client: The little guy. The evil men are those who are decision-makers but abdicate their responsibility of......

Central vista project 'wasteful and unnecessary': 69 Ex-bureaucrats to PM

A group of former civil servants have written an open letter to Prime Minster Narendra Modi expressing dismay over the central vista redevelopment project, which, they alleged, has been "marked by......

Politics clouds shuffling of senior bureaucrats

As eight senior secretaries get ready to demit office in the next few months, there is speculation and a sense of anticipation in official circles about which of these officers will get lucky and......

How will you revive economy, Mr Modi?

'Mere fundamentals will not do the trick,' cautions former commerce secretary Rahul Khullar. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   India's economy is in trouble and the government's......

The telecom mess has just got messier

'Tinkering will not do. Merely staggering spectrum dues comes nowhere near solving the problem,' cautions Rahul Khullar. Photograph: Himangshu Sharma/Reuters   Telecom was already neck-deep......

Moving beyond a heated discussion on growth numbers

No one expects the government to publicly concede policy mistakes. But it can shed denial; and, stop the point-winning debating style to the formulation of public policy, says Rahul Khullar. Many......

Things will get worse before they become better

We should brace ourselves for more bad news in the coming quarters -- on economic output and growth, strains on fiscal deficit, export slowdown, small and micro enterprises in distress, and further......