An apt, single-word description of a bureaucratic organization would be 'tight.' In this kind of organization, there are policies and procedures for everything. There is tight control over the ...

The term "bureaucrat" has held a negative connotation pretty much since it was invented, especially when applied to governments. Described by Irish novelist Lady Morgan as "office tyranny" in 1818, ...

David Graeber, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, is a man who wears many hats. He’s an academic, of course — and a respected one at that. But he’s also an author, an ...

The opposition parties in Odisha are raising a buzz over the regular visits to different parts of Odisha by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s longstanding Private Secretary and 5T Secretary VK Pandian ...