Santosh Kumar, IFS Diplomatic License I was called for an interview in Delhi. The day before I was to appear for the Union Public Service Commission, Harsh Gupta, the friend with whom I was staying, casually asked me whether I had photographs for the occasion. What photographs? I squeaked with mounting panic. He […]
Santosh Kumar, IFS A grand external strategy would require that interactions between different strategic objectives be examined to arrive at the right balance. There is clearly a possibility of a trade-off between some interactive objectives, and even between components of an objective. We now discuss some of the more significant interactions. Security and […]
Shyamala B. Cowsik, IFS At the outset, I would like, in the standard bureaucratic fashion, to disown all responsibility for the infliction of this piece on all of you. It was all Ashok Jha’s fault. This is in case it bores you to death. If you happen to like it, I shall of course […]
Purshottam Lal, IPS, Punjab Article on Editorial page – Daily Post, October 24, 2015 The will of the people P. Lal According to the Preamble of The Constitution of India, the people of this country adopted, enacted and gave to themselves the Constitution on twenty-sixth day of November, 1949 in the Constituent Assembly. […]
Purshottam Lal, IPS, Punjab Hindustan Times, October 16, 2017(Spice of life column) Short course that changed my life’s course P. Lal I disliked people heavy on the scales. This probably impelled me to put the pot-bellied policemen, working under me, on the mat, literally, to do front rolls and back rolls and a […]
Purshottam Lal, IPS, Punjab Middle: The Tribune, December 7, 2001 Passing the test! P. Lal The minister’s countenance showed curiosity and amusement. I had just finished explaining to him the police side of a case. I had spoken in Punjabi, a language at which I was yet imperfect. I had spoken haltingly, and […]
Nisha Agrawal/Malhotra, 1969, IC&CES As a small-town girl who grew up in Jaipur and then joined college in Delhi to study English Literature I had practically no idea what the Civil Services were all about. In Delhi University it was the in thing to appear for the Civil Services Exam, and as many of […]
Pratyush Sinha, IRS It was a drizzly Mussoorie that welcomed us on the 3rd of July 1969. The academy campus was slowly filling up with the probationers. New faces, new friends. We had hardly settled down in our hostel rooms and to the new routine that buzz began concerning the imminent announcement of the […]
Prodipto Ghosh, IAS, AGMUT As we await our turn in the Departure Lounge, our thoughts turn naturally towards the question of whether the long ride to the airport was worth our while… In my case, one part, all things considered, was certainly memorable: an extension of my undergraduate years, as an IAS probationer. […]
Mohammad Shafi Pandit, IAS, Jammu & Kashmir Payment of Salary through Cheques In 1995, while I was serving, at the Central level, as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Welfare, and militancy was at its peak in my home state, my services were urgently requisitioned by the then Governor, J&K State. With […]
