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WHICH CIVIL SERVANT HAS MORE ACADEMIC DEGREE?

Recently we reported that Dr Dalip Singh, 1982 batch Haryana cadre IAS officer, is the most academically qualified civil servant in the country. This is because he has a PhD from Delhi University and a D.Phil from Rohilakhand University. I got some messages that there are many more Civil Servants with two PhDs, and perhaps from better-known Universities.
Seeing the interest of our readers in the academic qualifications of the most learned ones among the decision makers, we welcome more such information about those running the show. If you have any such information, do send it to us to enable the whole World to know about it. After all, knowledge is to be imparted or it is of no use. Mail us:- sureshmehrotra@yahoo.com

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IAS promotions in Bihar

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IMAGINARY INTERVIEW
NAWAB PATAUDI

With the heat getting meaner and meaner in the plains I decided to go to the hills and so I drove up to Shimla. On reaching Shimla I checked into my favorite Hotel ….literally dumped my luggage and strode onto the Mall.

At Embassy's Ice cream parlor I picked up a softy cone and then walked on. I reached Balji's and picked up a plate of hot gulab jamuns and parked myself on one of the benches. Seated next to me on the bench was a person with a very familiar face. I jogged my memory…the nose looked very familiar. Just then he took of his sunglasses to wipe them and looked towards me. I literally jumped up as it was none other than Pataudi. He had a beard ….maybe as a disguise or he just did not get an opportunity to shave!!!

Me: Pat good to meet you.
Pataudi (Pat) : Wrong number……you are mistaking me for someone else.
Me: Come on Pat that hawk nose, eyes that are at odds with each other…….
Pat: Listen stop hassling me lest I call the cops!!
Me: Why you…. I should be calling the cops!!!
Pat: Please go ahead….and you'll face the music!!!
Me: I have no doubt about this…….. the Haryana Police for the past week has been literally requesting you to show up…….. last I heard was that Haryana Government is planning to challenge the ban on hunting Black Bucks taking the plea that these animals damage crops!!!
Pat: Yes …..but that will take time……..oh! shit what am I saying!!!
Me: Come come now don't play hard ball…the cat is out of the bag!!!
Pat: Okay so I am Pataudi…… now buzz off!!!

I got up, nodded my head and walked towards the Ridge. All of a sudden I found Pataudi walking alongside.

Pat: Hope you don't plan to tell anyone???
Me: Shouldn't I??
Pat: Listen I am in hiding and my Lawyers are trying to get me anticipatory bail.
Me: Tell me one thing the Police know who your Lawyers are ……can't they track the phones you make to your Lawyers.
Pat: I know this …….. I only communicate with my Lawyers via email.
Me: Smart…both you and your Lawyers must be having dummy accounts!!

On the Ridge there are these vendors who sell peanuts and I take two paper cones and hand one to Pataudi.

Me: How did you get into hunting???
Pat: Yaar after I lost one eye I was depressed and one day in my room I picked up my Dad's pistol and was toying with the idea of putting a bullet in my head. Just for the heck of it I took aim at a bird on the tree outside my window and I shot the bird down. There and then I realized that being one eyed was a boon if I took up shooting.
Me: But you could have taken up shooting as a sport…who knows you could have won laurels for India…….why shoot animals???
Pat: When I was in school I went with my class to the zoo. There while the animals accepted the tit bits from my classmates , the animals refused to accept anything from me and I got a hatred for animals.
Me: So you are preparing a Michael Jackson kind of excuse….blame your crime on your childhood…Jackson was able to get the Jury sentimental by playing up his childhood abuse!!!

The view was breathtaking on the Ridge and the breeze was cool and refreshing. Honeymooning couples clung to each to each other and couples who had been married for some time walked apart. It was usually the children who made the lagging parent catch up with the parent walking in front. A sadist of a man , weighing about a ton, was astride a horse and I gave the horse a pitiful look….looked like an elephant riding a pony!!!

Me: So how did you land up in Shimla.
Pat: From Jhajjar I drove to Chandigarh and from there to Shimla.
Me: But how did you manage not to attract attention???
Pat: My political connections helped me…….. and I am now staying in….chalo forget it!!!
Me: So while the Haryana Police are sweating in the plains searching for you ….you are enjoying a forced vacation in cool environs!!!
Pat: Yaar I am sweating in this cool environ…… and I am missing Sharmila!!!!
Me: Why don't you tell her to come on an Official trip to Shimla and then you can hide in her room.
Pat: Fantastic idea…….you should become a consultant.

It became colder and we walked down from the Ridge and at the Himani steps where you get the best Aloo ki Tikki. I ordered for two plates and we sat inside one of the joints.
In the cold we both enjoyed the hot Tikkis…….. hot and spicy!!!

Me: What had happened to you in Srinagar where it is said that you shot 2000 geese???
Pat: Man it was nearing Christmas and Sharmila had given me the idea that this year let's give something unique to our friends as Christmas gifts…..and while hunting I got the idea that why not gift Geese meat ???
Me: Didn't you feel guilty killing so many birds!!!!
Pat: Guilty…… I enjoy geese meat…….in fact if I had let go of this opportunity I would have felt guilty….. that night I slept like a baby!!!
Me: But hunters have this reputation of only hunting what they can eat!!!
Pat: Listen you cannot make me feel guilty!!!
Me: I am not trying to do this……I just want to make you realize that there are hunting principals!!

We walked down the Mall and came down to the benches outside Oberoi Clarke and sat down on the benches. The view of Shimla is breathtaking….like stars twinkling on earth.

Me: Now what???
Pat: Well one fellow has already got bail in this case…….so I'll get bail. At present aim is to get the matter out of the Public domain. In a matter of a few days some other issue will take center stage and my matter will recede into the background……..you know Public memory is very short lived!!!
Me: You say that you do not feel guilty for poaching…… so if you are able to wiggle out of this matter very soon you will be back to hunting??
Pat: My friend I won't wait for that long…… I am a hunting freak……. and once I get bail I will be back to hunting.
Me: But aren't you afraid of getting caught again??
Pat: So what….I'll post bail again……..you underestimate my contacts!!!
Me: No but here the Judiciary will take you to task!!!!
Pat: The Police have to make a case and if the Police do a lax job then….what can the Judiciary do????
Me: Then, like now , the Police will be requesting you to surrender!!

It was really cold and I offered to buy him a cup of Coffee and we walked towards Barrista on the Mall. You could make out the locals and the tourists. The locals who respected the cold wore warm clothes and the tourist were in their 'plains' attire. Yes there were a few tourists wearing warm clothing but then their color and girth gave them away. We ordered Coffee and sandwiches……please remember the Hills really get one hungry.

Me: Why have you ordered a Tomato and Cheese sandwich….why not a chicken one…..you are not a vegetarian???
Pat: No I am a pucca meat eater…….just turned vegetarian because my Ma in Law spoke to me the other day and said that she was doing some prayers for me and asked me to become a vegetarian …so as to get out of this problem.
Me: See the irony you have given up meat so that you can be let off in a case for killing animals…… what a joke???

I think he took offence to my remarks and he walked off in a huff. I picked up his sandwich and there was a dog shivering outside and I fed it to the dog and I returned to my room and slept like a log….some get sleep by killing and some get sleep by being kind to animals…to each his own…or as you like it!!!

PS. You may ask me why I did not inform the cops about Pataudi……hope you remember the song……jabh saiyaa bahe kotwall tab darr kahe kaa….seems Pataudi is above the law!!!

Bharat Kumar

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