"I cherish my rigid attention to integrity."

He was the last in a family of six children. "My elder brother was also a civil servant", he said. "I joined school in 1930 at the Palghat Basil Evangelical Mission School. In 1947, I finished school and wrote the end of school examination twice. Two years later, I wrote the intermediate exam at the government Victoria College twice. In both those years, the exam had to be written twice because the question papers leaked. In 1949, I passed fairly well, and I thought my marks guaranteed my passage into engineering college." "Unfortunately, in those days, admission had to take forward and backward communities into account, and one of the ways of keeping forward communities out was to ask them to appear for an interview. At my interview, they asked me the fantastic engineering-oriented question, 'Do you know Sivaji Ganesan'? I said yes, I know. The next question was 'How many movies has Sivaji Ganesan acted in?' That question was beyond my depth, and they would not give me a seat. Therefore, I ended up studying physics in the Madras Christian College from 1949 to 1952. I passed out fairly well and my principal a Scot gentlemean asked me whether I would like to teach in the same college. First they gave me a demonstrator's job, and after that I became a lecturer." In 1953, TN Seshan wrote the police service exam. Despite standing first in the competitive exam, he did not want to join the police, and wrote and cleared the Indian Administrative Service exam in 1954. "I joined ...

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