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The title of the book Those Were the Days, My Friend is the oft-repeated refrain in a popular English song of yesteryears
The book is a collection of anecdotes of a civil servant from pre-independence times until the late 1970s, letting in the reader to discover little known facets of public administration in India which have shaped the ethos of our system of governance. The period it spans is formative not only for Bihar, which is the locale of the narrative, ...
The book examines the concerns relating to poverty in India and discusses the importance of poverty alleviation strategies. It showcases the emergence of the Basic Human Needs Approach to Poverty Alleviation, which has revolutionised the concept of poverty itself. Poverty has come to be recognised as a broad social problem of public policy or arising from lack of political will. It throws light on dimensions of poverty in India, its extent and incidence, its ...
