Vikram Rajan has spent fifteen years tracking the Indian Administrative Service — its transfers, its empanelments, its quiet deals. He writes about the permanent government with the same scepticism most journalists reserve for politicians: the career bureaucrat who collects departments like stamps, the lateral entrant who never stood a chance, the property return that never quite adds up. His column treats every appointment order as a document worth reading twice.
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