Distant Echoes [Hardcover]

The book is about the reflections of the past, present and future that emerge out of vibrant thoughts and reverberate in the mind of the author. This enlightening and thought provoking book is a collection of pieces penned down over the last decade or so, weekly. These present a full spectrum of topics, issues and problems concerning the society at large. About The Author:- Omesh Saigal, is an Intellectual, Scholar, Author, and Administrator. Contents:- Foreword • Preface • MAN OF THE MILLENNIUM • Man of the Milennium-I • Man of the Millenium-II • The Relevance of Gandhi • Letting the Winds Blow in • The Making of the Mahatma • The Making of Charisma • IN POLITICAL TERMS • Let's Retain Our Identity • Globalization: Panacea of Farce • What a Boring Election • Move over MBA, the Financial Wizard is Here • OFFICERS IN SEARCH OF DUTY • How the Bureaucracy Copes with Technology • The Note that Gets a Decision • Making Tension an Input to Creativity • English as She is Wrote in Government Offices • Three Cheers for the Steel Frame • Bureaucrat Play the Game of Numbers • Can You Really Unmask the IAS? • Panel Time is Tension Time for IAS • Supportive Administrative Structure Needed • The Long Leash of Bureaucratic Life • The Back Scratching Syndrome • Engineers in the IAS, All Set for USA • A Timely Warning • The 'Dohathad': Two Handed Approach • Flag Flying Suitcase Officers • Police-Public Relations • The Policeman without Uniform • WORDS-WORTH • The Bureaucrat as a Writer • Destroying Hate through Pen • The Word Scores Again • Wield the Pen Sensibly • Has Literature Passed? • Poetry in Verses • BEYOND THE HEADLINES • Some Editors do Have'em! • The Mechanics of Opinion Polls • Compensation for the 'Complete Men' • UNCLE SAM • Can We Afford to Give the American an Ugly Image? • Profiles in Courage • The American Visa • TRYST WITH LIFE • Mistrust Begets 'Mistrust' • Tales of Inverted Triangle on Tally • Festivals, the Uniting Factor • Listen to the Rhythm of the Falling Rain • TRYST WITH MIND • Is Image Bigger than the Man? • Do Habits Die or Have to be Murdered? • Tryst with Self • Does Reading of Philosophy have any Utility? • TRYST WITH BODY • The Fountain of Eternal Youth • Good News for the Glutton Dieter • Healthy is as Healthy Does • PRE-METAPHYSICS • Technological Vision India-2020 • The Scientific Revolution • The Laser Diwali. • In Quest of Scientific Answers to Miracles • The Large Emptiness of Space • Beware of Tampering with Nature • Conscience in Science • OF KHANS AND BOLLYWOOD • The Cinema Critic as an Artist • Of Actors and Acting • Of Bollywood and 'Doctored' Scripts • THE BIG-SMALL SCREEN • Bringing Words to Life • DD in Search Lucre • How Long can we Resist Temptation? • OUR CITY • Monumental Disregard • The Future of our Metro • The Terrifying Reality of a Megacity • Making Delhi a Planned Region Instead of A Monster City • A Haphazard Growth • TROTTING AROUND • The Taj Mahal's Chemistry of Love • Simla Mon Amour • The Last Shangri-La • Pearl of the Orient or Gilded Cage? • SHORT OF THE GOAL • The Olympian Tragedy • This Competition is not Fair • It's Cricket not War • ABRACADABRA : WWW.Kargil.com • The Diana Syndrome • The Bidaii of My 'Bundle of Joy'. The Title 'Distant Echoes written/authored/edited by Omesh Saigal, Ias', published in the year 2000. The ISBN 9788121206532 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 370 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Literature / Linguistic. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-