Sivakumar Das News Today

Speaking at the launch of author Kallol Bhattacharjee's "Nehru's First Recruit" here on Tuesday, Aiyar, who literally describes himself as the "last IFS recruit" of the first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, said the country has overcome the "bad features" of its first generation recruits

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.