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First Stirrings

Early 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...

Bureaucrats
Bric a Brac

Divided we stand: UP loyalty split

The change of power in UP has split the state bureaucracy vertically. The officers who ruled the state from a certain floor of...

Mayawati
Mastermind

Mayawati’s Trishul

As a boy from a conservative Allahabad Brahmin family, growing up in Lucknow where father Triveni Sahai Mishra was a judge (later CJ...

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...