How do you manage the largest human gathering in history? What do you do when the responsibility of calming a riotous mob is entirely yours? Or, for that matter, if your sandal breaks just as you are heading out to greet the chief minister? For officers in the Indian Administrative Service- an elite few selected from among a few hundred thousand candidates in a year- such situations lurk right around the corner, every day, as do furtive mind games and power ...
