Ahmed Karim continues his personal account from last week. In fact, some pointed out that such a commitment was intrinsic to their job and wondered why it was necessary to make such an ‘open’ declaration. Some agreed with the principle of this initiative, but felt they couldn’t sign it, because it might compromise either them, or their office. Some felt […]

A personal account by Ahmed Karim, Pune.  Ahmed is a Media, Branding and Communications consultant. 13 Nov 2021 When Ashutosh invited me to be part of the Humanizing Public Service campaign, I “signed up” for it, because it seemed like a fun thing to do. He didn’t call the campaign by the somber terms that I am using now. It […]

So at the daily action level, we need to work with Government employees and we also need to work with the common citizens.  As a forum for Real Democracy, we formed the Manavwadi Janashakti, in which common citizens will work actively to move from formal to real democracy.  So we prepared a sort of undertaking to be given voluntarily by […]

We the Humanists of Pune launched a campaign just before the Independence Day 15 August 2021 to humanise public Service.  As India attained freedom and became a democratic republic, the relationship between government employees and the general public needed to change.  Under British Rule, common citizens went to government offices with folded hands and fallen heads, thinking them to be […]