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India’s First Battle of Rosogolla                                                                    *Dr. Saumitra Mohan             The swords have been out in two historically friendly provinces of our beloved country, namely Odisha and West Bengal over a delicacy which has always inspired uplifting passions among their hoi polloi. Residents from the two states have taken time out from their otherwise mundane and stultifying life to engage in a game of culinary one-upmanship. Be it culture, education, health or industry, the subtle yet subliminal contest continues. While West Bengal apparently has ha...

URBAN AND INFRASTRUCTURE POLICY: Lessons from South Korea                                                                                     Dr. Saumitra Mohan In the rat race of development in an increasingly globalised world, resort to a trade-off between improved quality of life and systematic destruction of the natural habitat including land and environment often become unavoidable. Rapid urbanization and economic growth are visibly apparent everywhere today, but so are varied urban environmental problems in overcrowded cities. The complexity of the issue is eve...

Better Custodial Care Needed for Death Row Prisoners                                       Saumitra Mohan                 Prison administration is an alienable part of our justice delivery system which, many feel, calls for urgent relook and attention. The prison administration in India has existed almost unchanged since its inception though a nomenclatural change has been effected in the meanwhile. Our prisons are  no longer called ‘jails’ and have been christened as correctional homes today in keeping with the changed ethos.                 Even though the prison infrastructures have improved drastically over the years, we still have a long wa...

                 Expectations from the Seventh Pay Commission                                                                              *Saumitra Mohan                 The recent recommendations of around 24 percent salary raise from the 7 th Pay Commission could not elicit cheers from the behemoth Indian bureaucracy as it had been expecting a much liberal and larger pay bonanza. The recommendations are likely to impact the lives of some 47 lakh central government employees and 53 lakh ...