By way of compensation, the reader gets only a few interesting snippets about the ICS cadre. For instance, Aurobindo Ghosh, the firebrand leader of the Indian independence movement, failed to qualify for the ICS because he did not know how to ride a horse. Jawaharlal Nehru failed to qualify for the service (Shrinagesh is no fan of the Nehru-Gandhi family as earlier he mentions that Indira Gandhi took several attempts before she could pass her entrance test to get into Oxford). Falling between two stools A K Bhattacharya / New Delhi May 30, 2007 business-standard
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