First Stirrings

First Stirrings : Man of Ideas

THANKS to his height, Naresh Chandra Saxena, born in Bareilly, got a head start in school. When his father, Krishan Swaroop Saxena, a...

ByNarendra KaushikApril 11, 2017

First Stirrings

First Stirrings : Grassroots administrator

NOBODY in Bal Krishna Chaturvedi’s family ever had any doubts about him getting into Indian Administrative Service (IAS). The suspense was only about...

ByNarendra KaushikMarch 9, 2017

First Stirrings

First Stirrings : Upholder of uprightness

WITHIN three months from March to May in 2008, three IAS (Indian Administrative Service) officers took voluntary retirement from service (VRS) in Uttar...

ByNarendra KaushikFebruary 14, 2017

First Stirrings

First Stirrings : Golden Girl

FOR Sudha Pillai, the former Member Secretary of the Planning Commission, the inspiration to join the civil services came quite early in life-in...

ByNarendra KaushikJanuary 14, 2017

First Stirrings

Not yet tired

SURENDRA Singh, a mathematics post-graduate from Allahabad University, had made up his mind to join the civil services early in his life. India...

ByNarendra KaushikDecember 17, 2016

First Stirrings

First Stirrings : The fair administrator

WHEN Gopal Krishna Pillai (67) joined as Sub Collector in Kollam (then Quilon) in July 1974, his first job after passing out from...

ByNarendra KaushikNovember 14, 2016

First Stirrings

First Stirrings : Bringing a paradigm shift

ANIL Kumar Lakhina, a 1974-batch Maharashtra cadre IAS, could never imagine that a reorganisation-cum-clean up drive in Ahmednagar collectorate he carried out for...

ByNarendra KaushikJune 5, 2016

First Stirrings

First Stirrings : Law in his blood

JUSTICE Vikas Shridhar Sirpurkar found his calling at an age when many youths find themselves at a crossroads. When the Maharashtra Bar Council...

ByNarendra KaushikApril 6, 2016

First Stirrings

First Stirrings : Life of many hues

VIVEK Agnihotri was only 11 years old (born on August 25, 1945) when he completed middle school in 1956. His father, Narain Prasad,...

ByNarendra KaushikFebruary 6, 2016

First Stirrings

First Stirrings : Perception and prejudice

WHEN Madhukar Gupta, an alumnus of Allahabad University, decided to appear for the civil services examination in 1970, he was only following a...

ByNarendra KaushikJanuary 6, 2016

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