ADHIP CHAUDHURI , S M ACHARYA AND CHIRANJEEVI SINGH OF THE I A S

ADHIP CHAUDHURI

Mr. Adhip Chaudhuri ( third from left)..Photo taken when he was Collector at Karwar and at a much younger age.

Mr. S M ACHARYA

Mr.  CHIRANJEEVI SINGH

I had the good fortune of working with  and knowing three IAS officers who were involved in professional and administrative matters at MSRIM where I spent almost a decade.

The earliest person was Mr. Adhip Chaudhuri whom I used to know much before when he was the Managing Director of Mysore Lamps.Sometimes some of us used to be seated in his office for a considerable amount of time discussing issues of concern(I found all these three bureaucrats to be good  orators) ,He used to be good at implementing administrative norms.From him I came to know Nirupama Rao is basically a malayalee.

Later came Mr. S M Acharya who used to be strict with administrative policies and was simple and sincere.I came to know later he is the son of an IFS officer of  repute.It was a pleasure interacting with him and I was told is a retired Additional Chief Secretary.

I dont know Mr. Chiranjeevi Singh at a personal level but had been part of some meetings he chaired and was a participant at some of his speeches and is a soft spoken gentleman.

From these people I learnt to some extent the importance of Administrative norms and the need and methodology to maintain organisational stability hither to which I was unaware of.All of them were eloquent speakers which proves beyond doubt the rigour of the selection process through which they emerge.

HU-MAR

A  bald man went to a Saloon for hair cutting. The person there said I will charge you double.The bald man asked Why double? The person in the saloon said..In your case the charge is for finding hair.

HU-MAR

If  Dharmender were to ask Hema Malini  Give me a call..What would he say ?  RING DHEY  BASANTI.

TRIBUTE TO A FATHER

P O P Nambiar the elder brother of my Mother

The daughter and son of  my mother's elder brother Sree Kala and Anoop both of whom are doctors'

HU-MAR

A Cannibal was travelling in a plane and asked the air hostess for the menu...the air hostess gave the menu...but the Cannibal said when I say menu it means the Passenger List.

I SPEAK TO KALLOL ROY OF BARC

I used to serve in Mumbai in 1999  in the area of  Enterprise solutions and my office being behind the Star TV Network in Andheri East and staying at a hotel in Juhu. I was conducting an interview to make some recruitments when a gentleman with some affiliation with BARC the Bhaba Atomic Research Center happenned to be on the list.I remembered that Kallol Roy who used to be my senior at college was at BARC and enquired if he knew Kallol and to my surprise knew him very well and got the residence number of Kallol.

I had forgotten about the matter but one Sunday afternoon decided to call him on the number from my office and lo Kallol was on the other side. Kallol never knew me all too well and I had some difficulty in permeating myself. Kallol Roy was in the Seventh Semester when I joined the Regional Engineering College Calicut.He used to be a person with a wide spectrum of academic interests and used to take part in debating and person with high motivation.

None the less we got talking for nearly an hour on the phone transcending many events during his and my stay at college and he had the gift of giving almost accurate dates of events.It was a very nice experience  talking to him at length..thereafter I have not had a chat with Kallol but came to know from some quarters he had risen to very high posts in BARC..May be he is headed to become a distinguished alumni of REC  NIT  Calicut.