My interview:
Board: Sh P.K. Mishra, former Chief Secretary, U.P.
Me: May I come in Sir?
Chairman: Plz come in Vikas
Me: (After going near the chair meant for the candidate) Good evening Sir,
goodevening madam
Chairman: Plz have seat
Me: Thankyou Sir (I took the chair)
Chairman : So Vikas, you have been working in CBI since 2011. There
have been a lot of allegations of using CBI for political means and also of
corruption. What is your view?
Me: Sir, I have heard allegations in Media, but personally I have never
encountered such a situation.
Chairman : Name some intelligence agencies in India.
Me: IB, RAW, DRI, Military Intelligence, CID at state level.
Chairman: Suppose you are the head of the intelligence unit. The
government asks you to give some inputs about an X terrorist
organization. How would you provide.
Me: Sir, I would penetrate it at its cadre level....
Chairman: No, no vikas. What inputs about that organization would you
give?
Me: OK, sir. I would find out about its cadre strength, its sources of
funding, the kind of weapons it has, whether it is getting any external aid,
what is its level of penetration at the social level.
Chairman: (Smiling) Now your boss is happy. (passes me on to 1st
member, M1)
M1: So Vikas, tell me something about Plato's Philosopher King.
Me: Madam, Plato wanted a ruler who had wisdom. According to him only
a person well versed in Philosophy could become a good king.
M1: Did he support property for the king?
Me: No madam. Plato wanted king to have no family or property.
M1: What about Aristotle?
Me: Madam, Aristotle was pragmatic. He didnt think it as a good idea to
devoid the king of family or property since it would be against the human
nature. Aristotle believed in institutions (law) instead of individuals
(philosopher king).
M1: What is the name of J.S. Mill's book ?
Me: Sorry madam, I am not able to recall the name.
At this point the chairman passes me on to the 2nd member.
M2: Which Indian Philosopher you have studied well?
Me: Sir, Shankaracharya.
M2: What is his philosophy?
Me: Sir, it is Advaitism. Meaning reality is non-dual. He talks about unity of
everything...
M2: So is it deterministic?
Me: No sir, it is non-deterministic.
M2: Is relativity involved here?
Me: Yes sir. According to Shankaracharya, dream state is less real relative
to concious state. Concious state is less real relative to Brahman.
M2: Is Advaitism related to Physics in some way?
Me: Yes sir. In Physics, scientists have been in constant search for a single
unifying theory which would describe everything. Initially, it was thought
that electricity and magnetism were separate. But Maxwell combined them
into a single branch of electromagnetism. Currently, superstring theory,
called M-theory, has been proposed which would unify all the forces under
a single theory, a theory of everything..
Chairman : Who was the Indian President having good command over
Indian Philosophy?
Me: Sorry sir, I am not able to recall the name.
Chairman: Take your time, recall.
Me: (after 2-3 seconds) Dr S. Radhakrishnan.
Chairman: What was his own Philosophy?
Me: Sorry sir, I do not know.
Chairman passes me on to M3.
M3: Vikas, which is more important, rights or duties?
Me: Sir, rights and duties are complementary. There can be no rights
without duties and vice versa. Once right is another's duty and...
M3: What is meant by work is worship?
Me: Sir, it means that work is the fundamental basis of life. Like Gandhiji
said that every person must do some physical labour to justify his both
ends meet...
M3: What was the philosophy of Gandhiji?
Me: Non-violence based on Satyagraha was Gandhiji's philosophy. It
meant that the situation itself is changed by changing the heart of the
opposition rather than destroying the opposition.
M3: See vikas, I have a picture in my mobile. Tell which phenomenon of
Physics is involved in the picture. (He gives the mobile in my hand. It has
the picture of sunlight passing over a temple and creating a ring).
Me: Scattering of light
M3: Scattering?
Me: I am sorry sir, it is due to diffraction of light.
M3: What is it?
Me: Sir, when light encounters an obstacle of comparable wavelength, it
bends around it to make such a pattern.
The member gives the mobile to the lady member and asks her to see the
beautiful picture.
The chairman meanwhile hands me over to the 4th member.
M4: Have you heard about dirty hands? Professionals ethics have to be
compromised in business and politics. What is your view?
Me: Sir, there are both good and evil elements in a human being. For
example, it is inevitable that there would also be criminal elements in a
society, for that law is there to deal with them. (I couldnt explain it
satisfactorily to him).
M4: Are there any situations where only duties are involved but no rights
are there?
Me: Sir, in case of an infant child, his parents have duties towards him but
they cant claim any right corresponding to these duties.
The member seems dissatisfied. He tells me that if a person is working in a
poor African country out of a sense of duty then the situation entails the
given condition.
The chairman interrupted.
Chairman: OK Vikas, I would ask you a situational question. Suppose there
is a state. There is an organization which is having subversive activities
and has taken control a large size of its territory. The state is unable to
deal and gain control. The Central government advises the state to take
help of the Central forces to regain the control of the territory. The state
refuses. The situation becomes more bad. State losing more territory to
the organization. Center again asks to take help of Central forces. The
state again refuses. What is the solution?
Me: Sir, the Union government can use article 355 of the constitution. It
can send its forces...
Chairman: Yes, article 355 entails the union to protect state from internal
disturbance and external aggression....
Me: Yes sir...
Chairman: And if the state is still reluctant....
Lady member: It can invoke article 356.
Me: Yes madam.
Chairman: Thankyou vikas, your interview is over, you can go now.
Me: Thankyou sir, thankyou madam..
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