Shailee Basu’s Reviews > What Ails the IAS and Why It Fails to Deliver: An Insider’s View > Status Update

"we require women and men of courage, conviction, integrity, compassion, with a deep sense of justice, convinced about the equality of castes and genders, untainted by communal, caste and patriarchal prejudice, and imbued with a deep sense of public service. There is admittedly nothing in the present mode of recruitment of civil servants that tests any of these."