Biography

There is a particular kind of IAS officer who doesn't just occupy administrative chairs but visibly reshapes the systems they oversee. Ashwani Kumar is that kind of officer. Born in a small district of Uttar Pradesh, educated at one of…

There are bureaucrats who occupy positions, and then there are officers who define them. Shubhra Saxena belongs firmly to the latter category. An IAS officer from the 2009 batch of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, she has spent over a decade…

There's a particular kind of IPS officer that doesn't make the front pages but makes a real difference — the ones quietly posted to districts across a state, handling everything from law and order to sensitive investigations, moving from…

Some careers are chosen. Others feel almost inevitable — like the person and the profession were always moving toward each other, and it was only a matter of time before they met. Chandana Deepti IPS gives that impression. As a serving…

There are police officers, and then there are officers who leave a mark that outlasts their posting. Tafseer Iqbal IPS belongs firmly in the second category. As a senior Indian Police Service officer with decades of front-line experience,…

In a country where the police uniform often evokes mixed emotions — authority on one hand, distance on the other — Dr. M. Ravi IPS built a career doing something quietly radical: making ordinary people feel like the police were actually on…

There's a particular kind of resolve it takes to sit the UPSC Civil Services Examination — one of the most competitive tests in the world — and emerge not just passing, but earning a posting in the Indian Police Service. For every name that…

There's something almost magnetic about artists who arrive quietly and then suddenly seem to be everywhere at once. Royal MusiQ is exactly that kind of talent. Before many people could put a face to the name, his beats were already playing…

Most Nigerian media careers have a beginning and a peak. Adesuwa Onyenokwe has had a beginning, a peak, a reinvention, and another reinvention — and she is still going. For more than four decades, she has worked across television…

When Modele Sarafa-Yusuf walked into the Nigerian Television Authority's sports desk in 1987, she was not just a new reporter. She was the first woman in Africa to occupy that particular space — the sportscaster's chair at a national…