The Steel Frame

Why some of Narendra Modi's favourite administrators from Gujarat can't join him in Delhi

The Patel stir has proved an unexpected hurdle for at least three bureaucrats from the western state hoping to join their former boss in the national capital.

Anita Katyal
· Oct 07, 2015 · 09:15 am
Quick to start, new Haryana CM pushes out bureaucrats seen as close to Congress predecessor

BJP’s Manohar Lal Khattar has changed several principal and additional principal secretaries

Shibaji Roychoudhury
· Nov 03, 2014 · 06:30 am
Islamic State lacks key ingredient to make a caliphate work: eunuchs

For four millennia and through many different Asian empires and caliphates, eunuchs proved themselves to be efficient governors.

Thomas W Johnson and Richard J Wassersug, The Conversation
· Oct 29, 2014 · 12:30 pm