Whoever thinks IRS officers are the best brilliant brains on finance that we have, clearly doesn’t know how bureaucracy works. Administration doesn’t require brilliance, it needs average minds willing to complicate everything.

We live in a country where even six months diploma course in fashion designing have aptitude test but our top policy makers become IRS on the basis of a rote learning exam. My own peers who became IRS never had the aptitude but their rank in UPSC left no other choice

Number one reason why I never wrote UPSC . I looked at the preparation material and thought why cram all these facts? Scope for original thinking 0. Scope for innovation 0. Brilliance and Bureaucracy are antonyms