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Working in wonderland

A govt employee is invulnerable. The chances of being dismissed for non-performance are the same as the chance of being caught for travelling without a ticket on the Bombay suburban trains

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T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan
Last month I had written in this column that I had difficulty, after finishing one book, deciding what to read next. I mean, how do you go from Jeffery Archer to Jeffery Sachs?

Many people thought I didn’t have anything to read and offered many tips. One even suggested Tolstoy’s War and Peace. But someone actually sent me a book, his own.

It has a neutral title — Through the Looking Glass — but is actually about something that is a major bee in my aging bonnet, namely, how do people who join the government on short-term contracts fare when in it.
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