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Amitabha Bhattacharya New Delhi

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Looking Back, Looking Forward

It was the best of times for us aspiring to join the IAS, it was perhaps the worst of times for India since Independence. We had been preparing for...

26.07.2025 10

The Statesman

Amitabha Bhattacharya New Delhi

A district revisited

Visiting a district, decades later, opens up floodgates of memory. When I think of Kakinada, the district headquarters of the famous East Godavari...

27.02.2025 20

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Amitabha Bhattacharya New Delhi

From file notings to fine literature

The pen may be mightier than the sword, but why professional civil servants take to writing, especially after their retirement, perhaps like no other...

07.02.2025 6

The Statesman

Amitabha Bhattacharya New Delhi