A Life of Our TimesOrient BlackSwan, 1998 - 637 من الصفحات This book deals with the author s work in the administrative services, under the British and in the Indian administrative services. After Independence, the author, an ICS officer, continued to work in the Indian administration and was often deputed to foreign missions. His memoirs give us an insight about several critical moments in Indian and world history. |
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... Moscow glowed in the distance . When the plane came to a bumping halt , it was with a sense of infinite relief that we staggered across the tarmac to the terminal building . On entering the arrival hall , which had the aspect of an ...
... Moscow glowed in the distance . When the plane came to a bumping halt , it was with a sense of infinite relief that we staggered across the tarmac to the terminal building . On entering the arrival hall , which had the aspect of an ...
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... Moscow with her family and private staff , to return some six or seven months later only to say her farewells before taking up her post in Washington . Her term in Moscow had been one of great frustration as neither could anything ...
... Moscow with her family and private staff , to return some six or seven months later only to say her farewells before taking up her post in Washington . Her term in Moscow had been one of great frustration as neither could anything ...
الصفحة 133
... Moscow , and gave us a chance to exercise our limping knowledge of Russian . They said they were students on holiday , bound for the same destination , and felt equally frustrated by the delay . Becoming sceptical about the road being ...
... Moscow , and gave us a chance to exercise our limping knowledge of Russian . They said they were students on holiday , bound for the same destination , and felt equally frustrated by the delay . Becoming sceptical about the road being ...
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Going Through the Paces | 32 |
Clodhopping Collector | 51 |
Changing of the Guard | 71 |
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