Mohandas Moses & Achala Moulik

Mohandas Moses was one of the most distinguished civil servants of his time. He spent his boyhood in Burma, graduated from Madras Univer-sity with honours in Economics and Mathematics and then joined the IAS. His achievements as head of the Food Corporation of India, Karnataka Power Corporation, Union Agriculture and Union Welfare Secretary are still remembered. As Advisor to the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir during 1994-1996, he made a very significant contribution to the restoration of normalcy. He was a man of deep and wide learning and has written a highly acclaimed book on the mind and also a memoir of Kashmir. He and his wife Achala have a doctor son. Achala Moulik was educated in England, USA, and Italy. She obtained a degree in Economics, History and International Law from London University and then joined the IAS. She was Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India, and Education Secretary to the Government of India. A novelist, poet, playwright and cultural historian, Achala has written twenty-one books. She has been Guest Lecturer at the Getty Conservation Institute at USA, has been a member of several UNESCO-ICOMOS committees on heritage, the United States Education Foundation of India, Trustee of the National Book Trust and the Indian Museum.