Know Your Babu: New Hupa secretary Anita Agnihotri is a noted Bengali writer, poet

“Those Who Had Known Love”—is an English translation of Bengali lyrical novel Jara Bhalobesechhilo written by an IAS officer of 1980 batch, Anita Agnihotri. As Agnihotri of Odisha cadre has recently taken over as secretary of the ministry of housing and urban poverty alleviation (Hupa), BoI here presents some of the highlights of Agnihotri’s career as a writer, and also as an…

Corridor forgets 1979 batch IAS topper & Oriya fiction writer Hrusikesh Panda?

AS THE process of appointing 1979 batch IAS officers as Union secretaries has begun with West Bengal cadre officer SK Sarkar getting appointed as water secretary, followed by Rajiv Takru in financial services department in finance ministry, the man who is virtually missing in action is the topper of the batch: