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IAS: guardians or palace guards?

Long before IAS officers like Durga Shakti Nagpal took on the sand-mining mafia in Uttar Pradesh or Ashok Khemka blew the whistle on Robert Vadra's real estate empire in Haryana, the well-informed public divided the running river of the country's administration into two streams: one comprises "the guardians", who despite political hostility and personal attack continue to enforce authority with dignity; and the rest, neck-deep in the murky waters of compromise and complicity, who are merely palace guards.

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