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Chitvan Singh Dhillon

DEMOCRATISING AUDITS AT GRASSROOTS WILL TRULY EMPOWER OUR CITIZENRY

December 15, 2020

Norman Ralph Augustine, the US-born aerospace businessman, once famously remarked, “Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.” It is imperative that we acknowledge the need for complementing the “auditors from headquarters” with “auditors at the grassroots level”. It is...

The magic of Himalayas

September 18, 2020

On a rather sultry day, while I was grappling with back-to-back official meetings, Haunting Himalayas — a collection of short stories by Rajni Sekhri Sibal, a former career bureaucrat and a poetess — arrived on my desk. Dreadfully searching for a distraction more than a reprieve, I took a quick...