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First Stirrings
First Stirrings‘Bureaucrats are basically control freaks’
I was the Additional Chief Secretary, Finance, and then Secretary, Planning. I was also Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce in Delhi. Unlike...
First Stirrings‘Bureaucrats have to adjust to the political mindset’
I hail from a family of bureaucrats. My father was an IAS officer in Maharashtra and my grandfather was a school inspector. I...
First StirringsI had never heard of the IAS
The farmer’s son who rose to the highest echelons of the civil service recalls a career spanning 36 years I’m a self-made person...
First Stirrings‘It is easy to reinvent yourself’
My father’s family came to India from Saudi Arabia in 1840 and my mother’s with the Mughals in the 1520s. We have a...
First StirringsThe ‘czar’ of Bharat Bhawan
I was born in a lower-middle-class family. My father was a Deputy Registrar of Sagar University. My uncle was in the civil service...
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...
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