‘Thou Stickest A Dagger In Me’ strikes spoof on Indian administrative hierarchy

‘Thou Stickest A Dagger In Me’ penned by a 1994 batch IRTS officer, Ateesh Singh, is a striking spoof on the Indian administrative hierarchy, seminally uncovering the present-day bureaucratic-political master cross-fertilizing games within. It is a politico-economic satire set in the storyline of The Merchant of Venice. It’s a shocking tale of the overselling political indulgence in policy formulation as much being a perspicacious pasquinade on its fascinating underselling bureaucratic execution. Set in the storyline of The Merchant of Venice, it provides a side-splitting caricature of the reprocessed financial disruptive wangles of a newly elected government, wreaking havoc and holler on the unsuspecting benefactors. Ateesh Singh, who has worked as Director in the Ministry of Finance, and is currently posted with the Ministry of Railways. His first book, My Derailments With Truth was also a spoof on bureaucracy.