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First Stirrings
First StirringsA life less ordinary
I was in the UK, on an International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) fellowship. One day, Gen Sundarji’s office informed me that the...
First StirringsA life less ordinary : Lt Gen AS Kalkat
I was in the UK, on an International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) fellowship. One day, Gen Sundarji’s office informed me that the...
First StirringsI joined politics to serve the people in a wider way
The Meghalaya CM talks about his humble beginnings and his vision for the state I started life in a small village, Nongjri, in...
First StirringsBorn to the Army
I am a second generation soldier. In those days, sons used to step into their fathers’ shoes. As a kid, I was very...
First StirringsMy strength was that I never sought postings
The former Chief Secretary of Haryana looks back on 35 years in the IAS I was named by my mother, who was very...
First StirringsAn IAS officer by chance
The professor-turned-bureaucrat brings alive the flavour of the India and Bengal of half a century ago My decision to appear for the Indian...
First StirringsJustice, social and all
A Delhi HC judge looks back on helping children, razing encroachments, and forcing private hospitals to provide beds to the poor My forefathers...
First StirringsThe POTATO WIZARD of Lahaul & Spiti
I was born and brought up in a police family My father, Naurang Singh Bains, who participated in World War II, was in...
First StirringsFrom Tiruchirapalli to Pokharan 1974
A member of the design team behind India’s first nuclear blast looks back on a life devoted to the unglamorous world of scientific...
First StirringsBabudom, from the inside
Hilarious accounts of encounters with BC Roy, refugees and government office politics After joining IAS in 1958 Midnapore or Medinipur, as it is...
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