Steel frame them: Childhood bonds must be treasured
The invisible but very pervasive "civil service family" network has been one of India's best kept secrets. Offspring of bureaucrats will vouch that regardless of region or other differentiators, doors open and procedures are speeded up once their civil service backgrounds are conveyed to government functionaries anywhere. But the parallel networks of "sarkari kids" fostered in government colonies in successive generations are actually an even better kept secret.