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Category Archives: Catharsis

This category carries those posts that I wrote as a catharsis – to unburden myself of the miseries that i had seen.

RTO – The case for Administrative Reform

June 9, 2010

The RTO offices in India are a classic case of bureaucracy, opaqueness and corruption. If there were a pressing case for administrative reform in India, the RTO must surely be a prime example and candidate.

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Despair, haplessness everywhere: no succour in sight

March 23, 2007

I have just recently come back from Yavatmal. This is the district in Maharashtra that is the epicentre of suicides …

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Abject hunger in Jharkhand

April 30, 2006

To most of us hunger pangs are that happen when our lunch is delayed by one hour… Have you imagined …

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The (un)civil society

June 28, 2005

Dusk…. Any village in India……….Any day of the year……… One enters with the headlights of the jeep on…. droves of …

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Where are their dreams?

May 18, 2005

I am back from a village (Narala) nestled deep in the hinterlands of Aurangabad district in the Western Indian State …

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