A GOVERNMENT official recently wrote to BoI: “I know one officer whose name is TPVSS Rao. Strangely with every new posting he would become Sekhar Rao or SS Rao or TP Rao. We used to call him A to Z Rao." Jokes apart, changing one’s name or at least a part of it by senior officers has become somewhat routine, at least when three IAS officers since June this year got permission from the DoPT to do so. Last week, DoPT permitted one IAS officer named…
