First Stirrings

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First Stirrings : ‘They could not accept a Secretary questioning orders’

THIS is the most incredible story of KK Jaiswal, an honest and straight-forward bureaucrat, who was so desperate without official accommodation that he...

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First Stirrings : Facing up to crises

Uttar Pradesh is a very big State. In my opinion, the State needs to be divided into more manageable areas of administration-Western UP,...

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First Stirrings : Service above all

ALL his life he has been like a sailor on a ship called destiny, which invariably called at the right ports. A structural...

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First Stirrings : The Unusual Bureaucrat

Her name, Rasheda Hussain, itself is loaded with meaning. Rasheda is derived from Rashid—one of the 99 names of Allah meaning “The Guide”...

Shovana Narayan
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‘You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching’

FINDING an unusual retired woman civil servant proved to be a challenge. Some have achieved high visibility but I needed a compelling story,...

MS Gill, Former Chief Election Commissioner
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‘EVMs have solved many problems’

MY village Aladinpur did not have a school for higher studies, I had to walk up to Tarn Taran, a small town close...

sonia-gandhi
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Leaving the past to predict the future

WHEN it comes to unusual retired civil servants, Om Narain Vaid outdoes most. A topper of the 1968 batch of the IAS and...