Getting things done in the Capital of India

That was... unexpected.<p>A sign of the times if some bureaucrat's got the courage and sense of liberty to publish such a article openly.

I can attest to this. In fact, this article sums up about 75% of what I learned at college (the other 25% is that it's okay to lie and cheat).<p>Sad.

Actually the bureaucrats are quite open. A (real life) movie was once made on the IAS (English, August) which poked a lot of fun at them. It was later shown as part of the IAS training (perhaps still is).<p>The writer of the book, still is in the IAS and continues to write as he works.

For what its worth, I remember reading something like this about the English language in "The Marriage of Figaro".<p>“The English, in truth, do add here and there some other words when speaking; but it is obvious that ‘God-damn’ is the foundation of their language”<p>Read more: Goddam/Goddamn <a href="http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/701/Goddam-Goddamn.html#ixzz0oFgc4L73" rel="nofollow">http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/701/Goddam-Godd...</a>

really, is this HN material?

An interesting article and quite surprising , in the sense that an Indian bureaucrat is talking so openly but why is this on HN ?