New Delhi. Everyone admires the impression that Foreign Minister S Jaishankar has made on Indian foreign policy in the world. During a conversation, he told that his father K.K. Subrahmanyam was removed from the post of Union Secretary by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. At the same time, even when Rajiv Gandhi was in office, injustice was done to him. Foreign Minister’s father K.K. Subrahmanyam, was an IAS officer. He was counted as the strategic affairs expert of the country. He was also considered a confidant of many Prime Ministers of the country. Subrahmanyan was the founding director of the security think tank Institute for Defense Studies and Analyzes (IDSA), now known as the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses.
Let us tell you that it was in the year 1999 when the government announced to honor Subrahmanyam with Padma Bhushan, but he refused to accept it. The reason given by him was that bureaucrats and journalists should not accept government awards. Born in January 1929 in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, Subrahmanyam completed his studies at Madras Presidency College. At the same time, later he also became an IAS officer. Of. Subrahmanyam was considered the head of Indian strategic affairs. He played a key role in shaping India’s nuclear doctrine. He was in favor of India becoming a nuclear weapon state and following a ‘no first use’ policy.
Significantly, in the last year of his MSc from Madras University, K Subrahmanyam appeared for the Civil Services Examination and stood first in the ranking that year (1950-51). He was duly appointed to the Indian Administrative Service in the batch of 1951 and was allotted the administrative cadre of the Madras Presidency. At the same time, when that state was formed in 1956, he was transferred to the Tamil Nadu cadre. As an IAS officer, he served in the undivided Madras Range and several remote districts of Tamil Nadu during his career. Also, served in various capacities in New Delhi.