Shivshankar Menon

While IAS officers write primarily about their own exploits, IFS officers write more about the issues and context of their work, while straying also into unrelated fields, notes T N Ninan

Menon says the government needs to work harder on a policy towards India's neighbours

Menon said that successive Indian govts in the last few decades have done their bit to take the relationship further forward

Menon served as national security advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from January 2010 to May 2014