Parimal Brahma

On the Corridors of Power: the Theatre of the Absurd (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

An astonishingly free and frank eyewitness account of corruption, scandal, inefficiency, conspiracy, dishonesty, favouritism, misgovernance, and lack of transparency at the higher echelons of decision-making in the government. Written in a humorous style, the book contains stories of the kind of games played on the corridors of power and in various ministries. While all the major decisions are taken at the level of the ministers in charge and all the misdeeds are committed by the politicians, they conveniently escape responsibility, and the bureaucrats are invariably made the scapegoats. It is an irony of the system that the real culprits are never summoned or hauled up by the Public Accounts Committee. Not being able to withstand the pressure and the fear of brutal reprisals, good bureaucrats also fall in line, and good people start doings bad things. The author always thought he was a misfit in the system. The author looked back at his encounters in the Central Ministries with a sense of pride, a sense of fear, a sense of horror, a sense of helplessness, and a sense of frustration. Being a nonconformist from childhood, he did not agree to compromise with any minister, politician, or seniors on issues of principles and propriety. It became increasingly clear to him that no politician or a bureaucrat was interested in thinking of reforms, doing things for public good, or serving people with patriotic fervour. Greed and power had overtaken almost all politicians, making them arrogant, revengeful, and fearful people and a genre of superior species that had no connection with the common people.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Partridge Publishing India
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781482872996
• Artikelnr.: 52571021

Autorenporträt

A product of Presidency College (now Presidency University), Parimal Brahma, poet, writer and singer started his early life as a Lecturer in Economics before he joined the Central Civil Services by sheer accident. The glamour and demands of the Civil Service muted a promising poet and singer. While the author rose to the highest level of bureaucracy, he always felt he was a misfit in the system and described himself as a 'non-conformist idiot'. As a participant-observer, he had seen many a drama played on the corridors of power. In this book, in his unique humorous style, he has tried to play back and retell some of the funny tales and episodes witnessed on the stages of our great democracy. While working in various Central Ministries, the author discovered that the majority of the political bosses were out to subvert constitutional functioning making non-transparent methodologies as part of their natural behaviour. While all the major decisions are taken by the ministers, they are not accountable to the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament, in fact to anybody and the burden of their misdeeds always fall on the bureaucrats. Honest bureaucrats who assert themselves for transparency and constitutionality are either crushed or sidetracked. Honesty, integrity, discipline and patriotism are anathema to the present breed of politicians and are perhaps incompatible with the present stage of our democracy.