"Residential Peon facility for Haryana IAS & other senior officers": by K.J.S.Chatrath

Here is a news to note.

Haryana Government has decided to provide peons at home to certain categories of officers. This facility would be provided to all IAS officers, judicial officers and HoDs . Similarly, all HCS officers exercising the magisterial powerswould also be given this facility.
These officers would be allowed to engage a home peon at their own level at the statutory minimum wages for unskilled labour as fixed by the state government.

It is hoped that other state governments and UT administrations will soon follow suit.

http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/governance/peon-facility-for-haryana-babus-at-home/130040.html

'What happens if a place has no historical heritage and no historical icons? by K.J.S.Chatrath

What happens if a place has no historical heritage and no historical icons? It quite simply creates those.
This is my take on the desperate attempts of some to cover Chandigarh with the mantle of 'heritage' and make Le Corbusier its icon.

Oh come on. Take a look at the 5000 year old monument from Egypt. THAT is heritage.

And what are these chairs?

'Baba Ramdev ji launches his own brand of noodles- news'-

'Baba Ramdev ji launches his own brand of noodles- news'

Pssst...These would be called 'Instant Yoga Noodles'...

Bhaag..Maggi...Bhaag...

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'Et tu, Shekhar Gupta?' by K.J.S.Chatrath

I am dismayed to find a senior respectable journalist like Shekhar Gupta falling for the Peter Muherjee-Indrani Mukherji trash and writing articles on it. Why doesn't the media understand that the common man is fed up with this story.

I respect The Hindu and The Tribune for not giving shrieking headlines to this 'story'. Similarly Doordarshan News has done well to keep itself away from sensationilizing it.

Let the law take its own course and let the media not try to become super sleuths.

'Bravo these Brave IAS Officers' by K.J.S.Chatrath

http://www.storypick.com/ias-honesty/

We all are proud of you and the many silent unsung heroes in the IAS.

A nation celeberates victories, not wars

A nation celebrates victories, not wars.

'Welcome back Bikram Vohra' by K.J.S.Chatrath

Decades back he used to write for the Times of India (TOI) . Then, if I remember correctly, he went away to Dubai and joined the Khaleej Times.

Now he is back writing for the TOI. One has had enough of Bachhi Karkaria and Jug Suraiya style of humour and needed some relief.

Welcome back Bikram Vohra.