P S Krishnan was a rare bureaucrat who sought to reform the government for marginalised | The Indian Express

P S Krishnan was a rare bureaucrat who sought to reform the government for marginalised | The Indian Express

Written by V Vasanthi Devi |Updated: November 21, 2019 9:44:14 am

The writer is former vice chancellor of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tamil Nadu.

P S Krishnan was a rare bureaucrat who sought to reform the government for marginalised

His vision derives, Krishnan used to say, from a unique blend of many ideologies: Of Ambedkar, Gandhi, Marx, Periyar, Vivekananda and Narayana Guru.

Krishnan’s life and work are “the rarest of the rare” among Indian bureaucrats.

P S Krishnan, who left us on November 10, was an extraordinary combination of the bureaucrat-reformer-activist. His was a life driven by single-minded devotion to the cause of the deprived and exploited.