An India Reimagined: Governance and Admi

The civil servant who spoke truth to power-Ramachandra GuhaM.N. Buch known as the architect of Bhopal was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2011. He studied economics at Cambridge University before joining the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1957. He famously wrote five letters to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh-ranging from the deterioration of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to Indo-American relations and how India must not be deferential to the US and to assert the countrys right to help rebuild Afghanistan.This book is a collection of twenty articles that have been divided into six major themes namely the IAS reforms (police judiciary and electoral system) economics social challenges (health corruption and reservation) and governance and environment. Original and thought-provoking this is a must-read for those concerned with the idea of India and how change can be brought.