The Man & His Mission

Ajay Singh Yadav was born in 1954. Truly at heart he was a man of letters. If we go by his own account in  his first book, WHY I AM NOT A CIVIL SERVANT, he made it to Civil Services with the subjects he had been deeply in love with, English Literature  and European History as his optionals. With his level of mastery in the subjects of his choice he made it to the IAS almost effortlessly.

He was a man whose life cannot be looked at in plain terms of joining elite services and seeking early retirement or trying and losing in politics. Beyond the narrow compass of success and failure his mighty personality genuinely sought its own larger than life frames to fit in and its justification and success lay in its utter simplicity and sincerity, its unbridled vitality and its unhindered creative expression, its deep rooted love for the common man and their ordinary life.

His last wish was fulfilled by God when he took his last breath on 7 th Aug 2012 at home and all the family members were by his side.