A note on Communication – an essential ingredient of public service The other day, Mangu Singh, MD of Delhi Metro said during his presentation during the programme on ‘Ethical Work
Humility – an essential component of ethics The members of All India Services, the Central Services and the superior state services are at the higher echelons of the administrative structure
We make promises or commitments to others and to ourselves. God has given us the freedom to make promises. The question is: Do we keep them? Or are we promise
In order to understand Ethical Resilience, let’s start by defining the two interlinked terms. Ethics are the norms of our behaviour and actions following what‘s right. Aldo Leopold has very
Compassion as an attribute of Ethics of Public Service In my session on the ‘Ethics of Public Service’, I have sometimes related the incident of my encounter with a large
A note on Commitment and the civil servant When my daughter was posted as Director Tea Board in Dubai, we got some quality time to spend with her. She drove
In a far reaching order, the Delhi High Court said that bigamy cannot cause a government servant to lose his job as ethical standards had changed since the time the
The Court has ruled that legislative privilege cannot be extended to provide legal protection to criminal acts by lawmakers. Destruction of property in the name of protests should not be
Incidents of unruliness inside the Houses are not new and lead to loss of work. Is it time to constitute a permanent panel which can make suggestions to safeguard democratic
(on March19, 22) 1. Shri Dilip Patel welcomed everyone to the 10th webinar of the Alliance of Change Makers and requested the participants to share information about the platform among their government
1. Shri Dilip Patel welcomed everyone to the 9th webinar of the Alliance of Change Makers and explained how we have been calling young officers from across the length and breadth of
– ‘Sanjeevani – Life Beyond Cancer’(on Nov 28,2021) 2. Shri Dilip Patel introduced the speaker of the webinar, Ms. Ruby Ahluwalia, an IRAS officer of the 1986 batch and currently
Reflections on the Mystique of ‘This’ and ‘That’ On an auspicious day last month, all those who are committed to the higher dimensions of life, express their respects and reverence,
# “When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him you will see yourself. As you treat him you will treat yourself. As you think
Reflections – United we stand; unity is strength! Shouldn’t Unity, not fragmentation, be the collective wisdom for the educated Indians? Shouldn‟t education teach our Civilizational vedantic cultural ideal of „whole
ICCfG Happenings Despite the continuation of pandemic the Centre was able to hold the 5th Webinar on the Community of Ethics on April 11, 2021 which has enabled us to
A diplomat is he who can tell you to go to hell in a way that you look forward to the trip To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism.
The story (probably apocryphal) goes that the then Prime Minister of England, Benjamin Disraeli, was once asked the difference between the words misfortune and calamity. Disraeli is said to have