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--> My husband is a Central Government Servant. Like hundreds of thousands of Sarkari Naukars classified into ‘Bureaucrats’, ‘clerks’, ‘Babus’, ‘Red Tapists’ etcetera etcetera, he too works for a small organisation within the vagaries of higher power in the Ministry of Finance. Every three years, Panga, as he is fondly called, looks at the list of officials on the office notice board, slotted for transfer after completion of their tenure in a respective city, town or some unheard of rural district. Sometimes he does get transferred, sometimes he does not; depends on the boss and his opinion of my husband’s indispensability. To add to the complexity, the boss himself is transferable and so is his boss and so is the boss of the boss of the boss and ………….the hierarchy, I hear goes right up to the Hon’ble Minister himself. And his own transfer and job, as we all know are very much dependant on voters like you and me every five years and then some complex political wrangling. The e...

My husband is a Central Government Servant. Like hundreds of thousands of Sarkari Naukars classified into ‘Bureaucrats’, ‘clerks’, ‘Babus’, ‘Red Tapists’ etcetera etcetera, he too works for a small organisation within the vagaries of higher power in the Ministry of Finance.  Every three years, Panga, as he is fondly called, looks at the list of officials on the office notice board, slotted for transfer after completion of their tenure in a respective city, town or some unheard of rural district. Sometimes he does get transferred, sometimes he does not; depends on the boss and his opinion of my husband’s indispensability. To add to the complexity, the boss himself is transferable and so is his boss and so is the boss of the boss of the boss and ………….the hierarchy, I hear goes right up to the Hon’ble Minister himself. And his own transfer and job, as we all know are very much dependant on voters like you and me every five years and then some complex political wrangling.  The e...