First Stirrings

First Stirrings : Trustee of public interest

MUKUND BIHARI KAUSHAL (73) says he attended three schools in his life—government schools in places like Bareilly, Kanpur, Haridwar and Etawah and schools...

ByNarendra KaushikNovember 5, 2015

First Stirrings

First Stirrings : Captain of the people

IT was like yesterday. Brijesh Kumar Gupta had just entered Niranjan Talkies in Allahabad to watch a movie when he heard shouts of...

ByNarendra KaushikOctober 10, 2015

First Stirrings

First Stirrings : For whom the bells tolled

IN the early 1960s, the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) had a halo around it, thanks to the legacy of the British Raj that...

ByNarendra KaushikSeptember 7, 2015

First Stirrings

First Stirrings : Rising above caste affiliations

FOR Ashok Nath, the 1966-batch UT-cadre IAS officer, the events started unfolding even before he appeared for the civil services examination. The septuagenarian...

ByNarendra KaushikAugust 11, 2015

First Stirrings

First Stirrings : Learning the value of trust

IT was early in his career that Yogendra Narain, a 1965 UP-cadre IAS officer, learnt the value of winning the trust of his...

ByNarendra KumarJuly 8, 2015

First Stirrings

First Stirrings : The Insider

IT was at an early stage of his career that Shantonu Sen, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)-cadre officer recruited in the investigating...

ByNarendra KaushikJune 7, 2015

First Stirrings

Retired, but not tired

IT was sometime in the summer of 1985. Surrinder Lal Kapur, the 1960-batch IAS officer, the then Financial Commissioner (Taxation) in his home...

ByNarendra KaushikApril 6, 2015

First Stirrings

First Stirrings : City Architect

WHEN Brijesh Kumar of the 1968 IAS batch, Uttar Pradesh cadre, passed out of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, India...

ByNarendra KaushikMarch 4, 2015

First Stirrings

First Stirrings : IPS Rebel

KS Subramanian is perhaps the first victim of Hindutva forces as represented by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP). It was on November 6,...

ByNarendra KaushikFebruary 7, 2015

First Stirrings

First Stirrings : I joined the army to fight the Nazis

HE hails from a family that migrated to India some 200 years ago and he proved himself a great warrior. One of the...

ByNeeraj MahajanJanuary 7, 2015

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