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First Stirrings
First StirringsROMESH BHANDARI : RELUCTANT DIPLOMAT
THE best moment of my foreign service career is related to the hijack of August 24, 1984. Seven young terrorists hijacked an Indian...
First StirringsThe studious child prodigy
The student who ranked second in the 1968 IAS exam recalls CMs, Governors and memorable assignments ALLAHABAD is my home town, where my...
First StirringsI WAS born in a middle-class farmer family in Salem district of Tamil Nadu. I was very good in studies but burned the...
First StirringsThe PSUchamp
BELONGING to a middle-class family in Madras, I grew up imbibing certain values from my father, an accounts officer in the Comptroller and...
First StirringsEarly Steps of Young India
I earned an MSc in physics in 1946 and was pursuing further research. My research guide, Sir KS Krishnan, was doing collaborative research...
First StirringsPrabhat Kumar : Bitter sweet journey
I took the civil service examination by chance. But I stood first in the country in the examination. During the interview, the UPSC...
First StirringsHer own distant drummer
In the last 15 years, I have come to understand that there are many bridges that have to be built. I built my...
First StirringsRemembering Sam Bahadur
After over three decades, on April 17, 2007, the government announced that Field Marshal SHFJ Manekshaw and Marshal of the Air Force Arjan...
First Stirrings‘Destiny made me serve the people of India’ Rajeshwar Prasad
the 1948 ICS topper recalls how a young nation took momentous decisions Strange are the ways of destiny. Even though I had no...
First StirringsAN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER
A former three-time chief secretary looks back with pride The idea of a career in the administrative services was not mine. I was...
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