IFS was upper caste service, more democratic now: Aiyar
Congress leader and former diplomat Mani Shankar Aiyar called the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) of yore an upper caste service, which he claimed is becoming more democratic now with the flavour of the country getting into it.
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Source: rediff.com