Heros from Babu Raj

The article Battling the babu raj gives very factual insight to the Indian Civil Service. When I was in SB College, I always wanted to join civil service. After joining IT industry I forgot about it and didn’t even give an attempt for it. Soo bad yaar....

But today I want to write about 3 Civil Service Officers who had impressed me during college days. These 3 are chosen because they were ex-students of SB College and came to college and given speeches to students during my college time. They were heroes to me once upon a time. Still some are heroes while others got displaced.

The first is Raju Narayana Swamy. His father Iyyer Sir taught me Maths in college. Raju got his Civil Service First rank soon after I joined the college. A big function was conducted in the college for him. He was always in the news for not bending for politicians, relatives and friends. He was one of the cats who were sent to Munnar for land recovery operation last year. He was a too good cat and stood for the people and law which irritated the chief minister itself who send the cat. The cat got transferred soon. But during the short stay there one minister lost his post and CM got screwed for land recovery drama of taking back land from TATA.

The next is Tomin J Tachenkkerry. He was Arts Club secretary when he was in college. While we were in college he was freaking out in Iddukki and Alleppy with drug hunt etc. After couple of years we see him as a musician with his Christian devotional song which was an instant hit. Then I saw him once in Singapore. I was in Business Trip in Singapore. On a Sunday he was there at Orthodox Church Singapore giving a speech. He had given a cool speech. Don't even remember anything now. He is the most controversial now and even suspended from Job for the pirated CD case.

Third was C.V. Ananda Bose. He was invited to college when he got some international award for Nirmithi Kendra work. At college old prof ‘s in speeches were remembering about how an arrest was avoided during emergency. Don’t remember the details. The last I heard he was also ran into corruption cases. Don't know where he is now. Did a Google and found some articles like this.
http://www.aees.gov.in/welcome_chairman.html and http://www.kerala.gov.in/nss.htm
As usual these Govt. sites don't have any dates on it.

Some of them are fallen. Some of them still hold to the old values. But even if in-efficient I still dream to be a Civil Service Officer, at least when I see mammooty in King or Suresh Gopi in commissioner.


PS: Last Saturday (15- March-2008) Manorama had summary of this economist article and used the Ernakulam Collector's quote to given nasty comment on Panchayat Raj !!!