Creating a 'loyal' bureaucracy; Centre versus Delhi government; arsenic in Bengal's groundwater; and more

[View this email in your browser]( Top Story [PMO Proposal on Service Allocation Seen as Move to Create 'Loyal' Bureaucracy]( Akshaya Mukul [Instead of the UPSC's relatively objective process, the fear is that pliant academies will open the doors of sought-after services to people whose ideological outlook suits the current establishment.]( [Criminal Charges for Tweets in Mumbai a Throwback to 2012 Attack on Free Speech]( Sukanya Shantha [Last week, two young professionals from Mumbai vented their anger against Narendra Modi and Devendra Fadnavis on social media. Both now have cases lodged against them.]( [C.S. Seshadri: From Proofs to Transcendence via Theorems and Ragas]( Bhāvanā Magazine [An interview with C.S. Seshadri, who set up the Chennai Mathematical Institute, on his relationship with Mumbai, mathematics and music]( [Centre Versus Delhi Government: An Undemocratic Vendetta]( Manu Aggarwal [If the citizens of Delhi decide to vote out the present AAP government based on how the Centre has played its hand in tarnishing the party's image, it would only prove that democracy is not just dead, but that it never really existed.]( [How Did Arsenic Get Into Bengal's Groundwater?]( Suvrat Kher [Between the Pleistocene and Holocene ages, the world's climate changed and sea levels rose. Together with other factors, they changed the distribution of arsenic in the alluvial plains of Bengal.]( [Narendra Modi and Amit Shah Now Face a Lasting Trust Deficit With the Opposition]( M.K. Venu [Even outrightly transactional politics needs some basic level of goodwill and trust.]( [The Political Games Have Only Just Begun]( Sidharth Bhatia [It is safe to say that the events in Karnataka have put both the BJP and the disparate opposition on alert.]( [Karnataka Results Prove That It's Time to Revamp Our Representative Democracy]( Nilakantan R.S. [The BJP, which won 36.3% of the vote, won the maximum number of seats. In the language of the Americans, that’s cracked.]( [A People Ravaged: Peeling off the Many Layers of Partition Trauma]( Bhaswati Ghosh [Debali Mookerjea-Leonard's 'Literature, Gender and the Trauma of Partition: The Paradox of Independence' resonatingly treads a line between fact and fiction to show that there was no easy escape for the victims and survivors of the tragedy.]( Copyright © 2018 The Wire, All rights reserved. You're getting this email because you recently subscribed to receive email digests from The Wire via our website. Our mailing address is: The Wire 13, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg Gole MarketNew Delhi 110001 India [Add us to your address book](//thewire.us11.list-manage.com/vcard?u=6b988b13445248b1268a308f2&id=4808224841) Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](