Civil Service Archives - Different Truths

July 20, 2020
Ram Krishna Sinha
Cover Story, Education & Career

Civil Services Examinations: Coaching Institutes — Heal Thyselves!

Ram Krishna SinhaRam Krishna Sinha is a former General Manager at Bank of India, and lives in Mumbai. After three and half decades of distinguished career in the Bank,...

June 20, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance, Obituary

Love is Not Love Till You Give it away!

Hemashri pays tribute to a former IAS officer, who was also a pro bono lawyer. His immense love and compassion for others set him apart. In him, she found...

June 13, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

A Life-Enriching Training

Hemashri shares her experience of training as a bureaucrat, which enriched her. She shares her experience in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. I was nominated for training...

May 23, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

Prayers, Process, and Reforms: Some Things do Not Change for Ordinary People

The state administrative service is rife with arbitrariness and discrimination. Hemashri recounts how her study-leave prayer for higher studies at JNU, New Delhi, was denied, while two other batchmates...

May 16, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

Caught Between Files and Life: Diagnosis of a Restless Bureaucrat

Hemashri recounts the harrowing incident of a government decision gone wrong when her father, a mid-level police officer, faced tough times. It had a serious impact on the family....

March 21, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

An Ode to my Mentor

Indian bureaucracy thrives on sycophancy, and the most favoured officer is the one who is most flexible in pleasing certain people. However, whenever there was a major crisis, this...

March 18, 2018
Tapati Sinha
Gender, People

Women Achievers Inspire Us to Fight Against all Odds

As we look into the lives of the women achievers who could overcome extreme situations and hurdles of life against all obstacles, we are forced to mull over reasons...

January 30, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance, Potpourri

Losing Out the Loved Ones…

Life is about moving on. Hemashri shares her experiences of love and affection in a transient world, working in different offices and reflecting inwardly. Here’s the weekly column, exclusively...

January 30, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

A Nude Interlude!

Soumya, our humourist, recounts a real-life story, an incident from the life of his maternal great-grandfather, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. This is a story of...

January 23, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

It Does Not Cost Extra to be Polite!

Most senior officers in the government service are full of themselves. They do not have the courtesy to offer seats to juniors, Hemashri laments in her weekly column for...