Some Win Some Lose: A Novel

Author: Singh, Mohinder

Binding: hardcover

Number Of Pages: 348

Release Date: 01-12-2008

Details: This is an interesting book about the period immediately after independence, when India's new Indian masters, and the newly created Indian Administrative Service, are trying to forge an effective and balanced relationship for the twin objectives of good governance and rapid development for the people of free India. The novel is about four such young IAS officers in the nineteen fifties and the decades after struggling in some northern states, to make sense of their lives and objectives, their perspectives and their duties and their struggle with the democratic political system. The interplay of the political and administrative power is well bought out. The author himself is an IAS officer of that era and the novel, in a way, paints the social history of that period. Writing as an insider, and taking four characters who follow different paths in their struggle and the journey up the civil service ladder, the author has successfully brought alive a period that has long gone. For the civil service reader, it will bring alive the past; while for the average citizen, it will help explain some of the unfinished revolution, which is still with us in this century.

EAN: 9788122007367

Languages: English