Download or read book Exceeding My Brief written by Barbara Hosking and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the tragic massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, to signing the Treaty of Rome when Britain entered the Common Market, Barbara Hosking was there. This is the story of a Cornish scholarship girl with no contacts who ended up in the corridors of power. It is also the very personal story of her struggle with her sexuality as a bewildered teenager, and as a young woman in the 1950s, a time when being gay could mean social ostracism. Born during the General Strike in 1926, Barbara Hosking worked her way through London's typing pools in the 1950s to executive posts in the Labour Party, then to No. 10 as a press officer to Harold Wilson and Edward Heath. Between working on a copper mine in the African bush, pioneering British breakfast television and negotiating the complexities of government, hers has been a life of breadth and bravery. Looking back at the age of ninety-one, this is Barbara Hosking's unheard-of account of the innermost workings of politics and the media amid the turbulence of twentieth-century Britain.
Download or read book Memoirs of a Civil Servant written by Dharma Vira and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confessions of a Civil Servant written by Bob Stone and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-07-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of a Civil Servant is filled with lessons on leading change in government and the military. Bob Stone based the book on thirty years as a revolutionary in government. It comes at a time when the events of 9-11 are sharpening America's demands for government at all levels that works.
Download or read book THE ASPIRANT Memoirs of a Monk Turned Civil Servant written by Mathew Joseph and published by One Point Six Technologies Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 1900 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you do not become what you once aspired to become, does it matter? ‘The Aspirant’ looks for an answer to this perennial question. It is the story of a young man who once wanted to become a Carmelite monk, but ended up becoming a monk of a different order - a civil servant. The disillusionment with the way monastic life was practiced, made him take this new direction. The journey ahead as a bureaucrat in CAG’s institution took the author to many places across the globe and caused him to meet several people – ordinary people with extraordinary stories – and those stories add extra layers to this memoir. And all through his life’s varied voyages, a part of him remained as a monk. ‘The Aspirant’ attempts to demystify two venerable institutions - the church and the bureaucracy - with a tinge of irreverence but without an iota of malice.
Download or read book The Naked Civil Servant written by Quentin Crisp and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comical and poignant memoir of a gay man living life as he pleased in the 1930s In 1931, gay liberation was not a movement—it was simply unthinkable. But in that year, Quentin Crisp made the courageous decision to "come out" as a homosexual. This exhibitionist with the henna-dyed hair was harrassed, ridiculed and beaten. Nevertheless, he claimed his right to be himself—whatever the consequences. The Naked Civil Servant is both a comic masterpiece and a unique testament to the resilience of the human spirit. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book The Insider s View written by Javid Chowdhury and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this illuminating memoir Javid Chowdhury shares his varied experiences over four decades in the IAS: the years in training when he imbibed the service’s ethos and values; his initiation into the rural universe as the District Development Officer and the District Magistrate; and further on, to his handling of the infamous Bank Securities and Jain Hawala scams as Director of Enforcement and Union Revenue Secretary. With a light pen, Chowdhury describes the changing social profile and attitudes of entrants to the higher civil services; the nepotism, in many garbs, that he encountered as Establishment Officer; and the stranger-than-fiction tortuous investigations of crimes. He also offers his nuanced reflections on the dubious legacy Gujarat acquired as a result of the communal carnage in 2002. Chowdhury further examines how policymaking within government came to be whittled away under the neo-liberal theology, with key scrutiny being left to external expert think tanks and ad hoc groups. As a consequence, he perceives that public accountability came to be inordinately diffused, resulting in the roller-coaster governance that we witness today. Sharp and insightful, replete with telling anecdotes and amusing sketches of icons, colleagues and ministers, The Insider’s View is a compelling portrait of the author, a self-confessed welfare socialist, besides being an X-ray of the innards of the bureaucracy.
Download or read book Driven written by Jagdish Khattar and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic triple treat—stories from a civil servant, corporate captain and businessman Jagdish Khattar has had an astonishingly diverse career, a trained lawyer who became an IAS officer. He was an agent of change in Uttar Pradesh through his roles as district magistrate, and head of the cement and transport corporations. He also helmed India’s Tea Board in London and played a key role in the steel ministry. Elevated to the post of MD with Maruti Udyog, a firm that was on the verge of a steep decline, Khattar braved labour unions, foreign competition, and politicians as he led Maruti to a very successful IPO. Finally, at the age of sixty-five, Khattar turned entrepreneur with Carnation, India’s first multi-brand car sales and servicing network. Driven spreads across a sweeping national canvas from drought-hit villages to the Shakespearean intrigues of politicians and bureaucrats. Written with flair and liberally peppered with frank anecdotes, it is filled with lessons about leadership, friendships, jugaad-style innovation, resilience, and values.
Download or read book Memoirs of a Civil Servant written by Dharmavīra and published by Delhi : Vikas Publishing House. This book was released on 1975 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In One Life written by Kamal Siddiqui and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book And what Remains in the End written by Robin Gupta and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs Of A Very Civil Servant written by Akhter Husain and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Dream Is Too Big Memoirs of a Civil Servant written by Dr G G Saxena and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-11-24 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting journey of an IAS officer that unfolds between the pages of the book. Be it the difficult posting in Andaman and Nicobar or critical handling in Delhi Administration, the book is raw and relatable for readers everywhere. It takes you through the decision making process of a seasoned bureaucrat who formulated policies, advised political leaders, guided subordinates while serving the public at large.
Download or read book No Minister written by Mahesh Prasad and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bard wrote: The course of true love never ran smooth . The same is true of this book. It is the memoirs of a civil servant who followed the path of rectitude. This is an interesting autobiographical account full of anecdotes and the author s persona
Download or read book The Aspirant written by Mathew Joseph and published by Inkstate Books. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you do not become what you once aspired to become, does it matter? 'The Aspirant' looks for an answer to this perennial question. It is the story of a young man who once wanted to become a Carmelite monk, but ended up becoming a monk of a different order - a civil servant. The disillusionment with the way monastic life was practiced, made him take this new direction. The journey ahead as a bureaucrat in CAG's institution took the author to many places across the globe and caused him to meet several people - ordinary people with extraordinary stories - and those stories add extra layers to this memoir. And all through his life's varied voyages, a part of him remained as a monk. 'The Aspirant' attempts to demystify two venerable institutions - the church and the bureaucracy - with a tinge of irreverence but without an iota of malice.
Download or read book In the Service of Free India Memoir of a Civil Servant written by B D Pande and published by Speaking Tiger Books. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description In the decades following 1947, as the tallest national leaders were building a new India, they were supported by a band of idealistic civil servants fiercely committed to the country's Constitution and its people. Among these remarkable officers was Bhairab Datt Pande, a young man from the Himalayan district of Kumaon, who joined the Indian Civil Service in 1939. Over almost forty years as civil servant, and later as governor, he played an important role in the country's administration, and interacted with leaders like Indira Gandhi (as cabinet secretary during the Emergency), Morarji Desai and Jyoti Basu. His memoir- which, respecting his wish, is being published posthumously-is a fascinating record of his own life and that of India in the half century after Independence. Pande chronicles several landmark events and initiatives that he either participated in or witnessed. He helped increase food-grain allotment to the state as food commissioner of Bihar in the early 1950s and drew up a new famine code as land reforms commissioner. His work in the Community Development programme some years later still has important lessons for today's Panchayati Raj institutions. After retirement, he was governor of West Bengal during the resurgence of Naxalism in the early 1980s, and of Punjab in 1983- 84-a tragic and turbulent year in the history of the state and the nation. Pande chose to resign as governor rather than carry out unconstitutional orders. His compelling narration of the behind-the-scenes events and negotiations leading up to the Anandpur Sahib Resolution and Operation Bluestar is of great value. Engaging and inspiring in equal measure, this memoir is both a fascinating record of an extraordinary life and an important and revealing historical document.
Download or read book Discovery of Truth and Nothing But Truth written by L. Mishra and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of a Civil Servant written by David Ford and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-18 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A factual account of a Civil Servant during one of the most interesting periods in British History. It gives a unique perspective of what it is like to be part of a band of colleagues engaged on work of National Importance I ask for the forbearance of the reader to indulge me in my factual account of being a young twenty something civil servant in a period, "before the rot set in". "Before the rot set in" I hear you say, by that I mean being in the employ of the Government at a period that was sadly to be the end of an era in hindsight. An era of fair reciprocity, those in the employ of central government were proud to serve Her Majesty, and in return the civil servant was valued, if he or she did their bit then promotion was not a dirty word. The employee was also regaled with numerous privileges. Today such favourable circumstances are frowned upon, likened to old men looking up ladies skirts; in short it would today elicit an exhortation of distaste among general society, government and employers in particular. Ironically this end of the golden age of being a civil servant was for me from the midterm of the Thatcher years through to the early Major years. Today loyalty has to be bludgeoned out of the employee , by artifice of ever lower rates of pay and general entitlements , a kind of neo Dickensian world where long hours , hard labour and employment into old age are the way of things. So those in the establishment today look down their long noses finger wagging as if the "Golden era" I alluded to was some kind of aberration, that cardinal sin the spending of public money. Yes we spent public money, and yes it wasn't always targeted to the right place, but by God we healthily injected money by way of investment into the private sector, as inevitably we used contractors for works service. Then those contractors paid tax on profits, and so the funding merry goes round repeated it. It is my belief no accident that our spending fuelled a buoyant economy at that time. And there I must leave it I made a pact with myself not to become a political commentator or amateur economist, we will leave such matters to those better qualified. What the finger wagging establishment did not know was that the average Civil Servant during that period was loyal hard working discrete and professional to the highest degree. Indeed many of us so much loved our careers that we lamented the onset of the weekend!Of course we live in a subjective world on the large part, yes it was a golden era in the civil service yet we are reminded in Buddhism that "through our thoughts we create the world". I write this tome subjectively; I was a young bright healthy twenty something determined to make my mark, so for me perhaps even greater opportunities were open to me. If I had been perhaps as I am now middle aged , world weary and cynical , then the "Golden age " might not have appeared so Golden. So it is on that thought I leave the reader to make their own judgements. In the back of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Journal It was packed with job opportunities. One caught my eye, Electrical and Mechanical Engineers wanted in the Department of the Environment the Property Services Agency. It turned out they were inviting applications to the grade of graduate Engineer with a secure career, training and privileges. My eyes were out on stalks, central government, to be a Civil Servant. I didn't care where it was I was mobile I could always rent out my house. I fancied working for the Government. But it has to be remembered especially in my line of work a lot of Engineers were doing trying to do the opposite of me, they were looking to leave the Civil Service and use their skill and experience in securing higher salaries. Hence there was a "brain drain" of sorts, but I was not the norm, my Father had instilled in me that the public sector was better in the long game stakes. My Father was a gifted Clerk of Works for the County Council .
