New Delhi, July 21 -- External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday reminisced about his entry into the civil services, saying his UPSC interview in Delhi took place on March 21, 1977 - the day the Emergency was lifted.
"(1977) Election results were coming from the previous day. The sense of the defeat of the Emergency rule was coming into understanding. In a way, that is what got me through the interview," he said in his address at an event here.
Walking down memory lane, Jaishankar, then 22, said he had returned from the interview with two key takeaways - the significance of communication under pressure and that important people may be living in a "bubble".
In his address to a gathering of the fresh batch of entrants to the civil se...