By Nimita Pandey CAT, MAT…and now CSAT?? An Introspection of the present schema to that of the past… With months-long contemplation and all formal considerations, the Union Public Service Commission finally declared the much awaited Syllabus of the Civil   Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) for selecting Indian administrative officials. With the dawn, on 18th October 2010, the remarkable day in the Indian History was set forth, sufficing the initiation of the ending of the British administrative system. The readers might take this note with astonishment and bewilder on the relevance... 

by Nimita Pandey “Abhi to maidam hum Jhopdi mein rehte hain. Agar Sarkaar pakka ka Makaan dilwaa deti, to bahaut upkaar hota hum log pe” (Madam, as for now I stay in a hut. But would have been obliged, if government provides a pucca house). I was stubbed by the agonising statement of an auto-rickshaw driver, driving down the Bailey Road of Patna, when asked about his residence and living. While roamingaround the city of Patna, if one is mesmerized by the emergence of high-rise buildings, he cannot let the entire gamut of Jhopadpattis (slums), be left unnoticed! The ever-growing site...