by Rajan Singh | Feb 2, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
One of my best friends in the Indian Police Service recently told me the story of his boss at a paramilitary organization, who used to tell his staff, “After 5 pm, I want all of you on the sports ground — nobody should be seen in the office.” So one...
by Rajan Singh | Jan 30, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
About a decade ago, I was in Mussoorie (at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration) during the training program for senior Civil Servants. During one of the sessions, a guest speaker gave a talk that was critical of the bureaucracy and suggested some...
by Rajan Singh | Jan 29, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
You take a risk every time you sign bank documentation without reading it (e.g., when taking a bank loan). Yet, it makes sense because we have limited time and attention, and we can’t be reading everything. But by responding to every email and WhatsApp with...
by Rajan Singh | Jan 28, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
Long ago, one of my IITK professors lost his life to cancer. His colleague told me that until the very end, he kept working — he insisted that his files and other work be brought to him at the Visitors’ Hostel. He only stopped working when he was...
by Rajan Singh | Jan 27, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
When I first landed in Kerala as a Civil Services officer trainee, we were staying in a guest house managed by the police department. One evening, we all batchmates wanted to just sit and chat. So we started moving the furniture around so that we could all sit...
