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Parimal Brahma
A product of Presidency College (now Presidency University), Parimal Brahma, poet, writer and singer started his early life as a Lecturer in Economics before he joined the Central ...view moreA product of Presidency College (now Presidency University), Parimal Brahma, poet, writer and singer started his early life as a Lecturer in Economics before he joined the Central Civil Services by sheer accident. The glamour and demands of the Civil Service muted a promising poet and singer. While the author rose to the highest level of bureaucracy, he always felt he was a misfit in the system and described himself as a ‘non-conformist idiot’. As a participant-observer, he had seen many a drama played on the corridors of power. In this book, in his unique humorous style, he has tried to play back and retell some of the funny tales and episodes witnessed on the stages of our great democracy. While working in various Central Ministries, the author discovered that the majority of the political bosses were out to subvert constitutional functioning making non-transparent methodologies as part of their natural behaviour. While all the major decisions are taken by the ministers, they are not accountable to the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament, in fact to anybody and the burden of their misdeeds always fall on the bureaucrats. Honest bureaucrats who assert themselves for transparency and constitutionality are either crushed or sidetracked. Honesty, integrity, discipline and patriotism are anathema to the present breed of politicians and are perhaps incompatible with the present stage of our democracy.view less