That was... unexpected.

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).

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).

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".

“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”

Read more: Goddam/Goddamn http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/701/Goddam-Godd...

really, is this HN material?

only if you are able to look at is as "Tips for Hacking the Indian Bureaucracy" :)

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