A handsome Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, currently in the news, used to write a weekly column on diplomacy for the now defunct Illustrated Weekly of India under the pseudonym "Akbar Krishna". Who? Our lips, in the best traditions of good responsible journalism, are sealed.
Shashi Tharoor??
who else?
Illustrated Weekly of India
Who else!
BTW, Rajeev Gowda the author of the Usenet post, that I have linked to, is the one who set the quiz for Outlook’s New Year Quiz; they took three months to declare results and I am supposed to get a t-shirt as a consolation prize!
Another three months has passed(ok, almost!) no consolation. :’-(
But Shashi Tharoor never worked for IFS
Must be Natwar Singh who has indulged in occasional eulogies on his forbears. Even now he is threatening to write a book and expose the oil on his face!
Natwar Singh, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Navtej Sarna, Nirupama Rao-Menon… virtually everybody in the IFS fancies himself to be a writer. It could be any of them.
thu! click on the link in my comment above!
and Sateesh hit the head on the nail! Shashi Tharoor never worked for IFS!
If you see his interviews, he mentions that more than once.
That’s right. Tharoor never worked for the IFS.
Mr .ULLagadde Menisankaayee jawarekaayee
Natwar Singh, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Navtej Sarna, Nirupama Rao-Menon… virtually everybody in the IFS fancies himself to be a writer. It could be any of them !!……..
Well, we missed one point of KP’s post -A handsome Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer….
None of the above IFS clan gloat as handsome ! So Kp goofed up in calling shashi as IFS and took us on a wild goose chase !
Yes that was my thought too but I did not want to mention it without checking further. I also have no idea about how the rest of the people mentioned, looked in their younger days. :)
handsome Indian Foreign Service Officer? Isn’t that an oxymoron?
truly said.being handsome&and being deplomat…both are contrary things.i know his style of writing.he must be shashi tharoor.