M K Kaw (25 results)

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Condition: Good. Signed with dedication by Author to ffep. Good condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has some minor surface wear. Book has clean and bright contents.

Condition: New. pp. 290.

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Condition: New. pp. 290.

Flexible Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1975. Poetry. Very Good+ flexible handloom cloth covers/paper title label; 8vo; 72 pages. Author, Maharaja Krishen Kaw, was a Delhi bureaucrat and author also of Outsider Everywhere and BureauCracy gets Crazier. ISBN: 0-88253-591-9 flx 10.00 ISBN:0-88253-592-7 hd $20.00 ISBN: 0-88253-591-9 flx 10.00.…

Flexible Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1975. Poetry. Very Good flexible handloom cloth covers ; 8.5" tall; upper corner light bump; no writing; 33 pages. Maharaja Krishen Kaw. ISBN: 0-89253-769-8.

Condition: New. pp. 212.

Condition: New. pp. 290.

Condition: New. pp. 212.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. This is an intimate, inside look at the state of the Indian Administrative Service, with nothing held back. It lays bare the activities of the modern mandarins behind bolted portals, describing how they crawl up the greasepole of success, manipulating in-laws and outlaws with equal felicity. The way they bootlick superiors is only matched by the fervour of their pontification at juniors. The tussles at the top get really gory, as the commitment is to individuals rather than principles. Himself a senior IAS officer, the author tears off the mask and exposes the authentic face of his own clan. Bureaucrazy was first published in 1993. Its first edition was sold out in 30 days. It was translated into Hindi and Punjabi under the title Afsarshahi Benaqab. Over the years there has been a clamour for Bureaucrazy 2. This is a revised and updated edition of the original with 15 new chapters in addition to the 31 of the first edition.…

Soft cover. Condition: New. ISBN:9789322008390,290pp.

Soft cover. Condition: New. ISBN:9789322008086,212pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1974. Poetry. Very Good handloom cloth covers/acetate dust jacket ; 8.5" tall; 33 pages. Maharaja Krishen Kaw ISBN: 0-89253-768-X cloth 3.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Autobiographies of civil servants generally make for banal reading. These are either exercises in self-glorification or attempts at pontification. This is an autobiography with a difference. M.K. Kaw, the author of Bureaucrazy fame is known for his style imbued with humour and pen dipped in satire. Here he takes a look at his own life, starting with a zany essay on why he is called Kaw, which means crow in Kashmiri. In one of the chapters, he refers to the phenomenon which led some of his younger colleagues to revel in the appellation Kawboy. The text is peppered with half-remembered lines of a childhood poem celebrating the exploits of Natha Singh, a truck driver of Delhi. He has not omitted to reproduce in its unexpurgated virility a naughty limerick he composed at a party about his chief secretarys non-performing member. There are revelations about the exploits of politicians and bureaucrats, as seen from the perspective of a poet who got trapped in the topsy-turvy world of bumbledom. Kaw has manfully resisted the temptation to deliver high-sounding sermons at hapless juniors in the service. He has instead concluded with tongue-in-cheek aphorisms camouflaged as pearls of wisdom.…

Condition: Good. 327 pp., hardcover, ex library, else text and binding clean and tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

Condition: New. pp. x + 488 Index 1st Edition.

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paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.