Politics and Governance
“Are Yaar, Ye Lulla Phir Aa Gaya,” Said the Constable
He lost an arm to criminals, his case to the thana, and his dignity at its gate. An essay on the police system India inherited and never reformed.
Politics and Governance
The Indian Bureaucracy Was Built to Collect, Not to Serve
The Collector still collects, and the saheb still presides. Why the machinery Macaulay built survives in free Bharat, and what it would take to reforge it.
