An India Reimagined: Governance and Administration in the World’s Largest Democracy

By M.N. Buch, Editor: N. Ravichandran (Penguin Random House, 2019)

Launch of the book 

 

Introduction: Suhas Borker, Managing Trustee, Jan Pahal Trust

 

Chief Guest: Dr. Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India 

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

 

Closing Remarks: Smt. Nirmala Buch, former Union Rural Development Secretary and former Chief  Secretary Madhya Pradesh

 

Mahesh Neelkanth Buch did his Economics Tripos from Cambridge University before he joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1957. Widely recognized and respected for his integrity, professionalism and societal contributions, Buch was known as the architect of New Bhopal. 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 country's 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, the collection reflects Buch's deep concern with safeguarding the idea of India and how change can be brought

 

(Collaboration: Jan Pahal Trust; National Centre for Human Settlements and Environment; and Penguin Random House)