Indian Bureaucracy
DVG's Portrait of the Servility of State Congress Ministers to the High Command
In this episode, DVG sketches an unflattering picture of the servility of the State Congress Ministers to the dictatorial High Command.
Mysore Princely State
Lessons from D.V. Gundappa’s 1959 Letter to B.D. Jatti and G.B. Pant
In January 1959, DVG wrote two acerbic letters to the then Mysore Chief Minister B.D. Jatti and sent its copies to the Home Minister, G.B. Pant. It triggered a chain of bureaucratic correspondence between Delhi and Bangalore. The episode offers brilliant and eye-opening insights into recent history.
Mughal History
The Nehru Dynasty Durbaris as the Inheritors of the Mughal Durbaris
Read the details of the eerie similarities between the courtiers of the Nehru clan and the durbaris of the Mughal Empire.
Sanatana Polity
The Genius of Sanatana Polity and Statecraft: Decolonising Indian Governance
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s vision of and eulogy to the Indian Civil Services in his inspirational speech on April 21, 1947 to the first batch of the Indian Administrative Services needs repetition if only to underscore how farsighted he was: Your predecessors were brought up in the traditions in which