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‘Hogwarts’ of Indian administration,
‘Xavier Institute’ of India.
‘To become a successful politician, you need to be a good actor. To become a successful actor, you need to be a good politician. To become a successful bureaucrat though, you need to be both!’
an IAS officer is respected because he or she has the ability to think and take clear decisions for the benefit of the society.
He felt that he had all the power, yet had none.
Yohimbine, heparin and clonidine,
‘You don’t lose your good friends, ya. If you lose them then they aren’t good enough to be your friends,’
‘These days, IAS officers are arrested even for things they haven’t done. Their crime is that they are IAS officers.
Wherever there is greed, there is always trouble!’
‘Do you know the greatest form of humiliation? It’s seeing how powerful your enemy is day in and day out and realizing your impotence to go against him! That feeling is the greatest humiliation! That is worse than death! You will now feel it every single day!’
But there are thousands of Vikrams out there—fighting within the system—to protect and save it from people like you. In this fight, we may lose our families, we may lose our friends, we may even lose our reputation, but the only thing that we don’t lose is hope!
‘I’m not a knowledge monster or a maniac, but an average government servant who can skillfully replicate things!
