Ashok Lavasa wears many hats: Author, teacher, and now at poll panel

Lavasa was directly responsible for allocations to various ministries and schemes, joking that he was one of the most disliked men in bureaucracy

New election commissioner Ashok Lavasa wears many hats —author, erstwhile teacher, bureaucrat, nature lover. What he loves the most is photography. Wherever he has taken office, he has adorned it with photographs clicked by him. He says his camera is one thing he has never forgotten to pack when on foreign tour. Go to his Twitter account and you will find some of the pictures clicked by him.
 
Lavasa, who retired from the Indian Administrative Service in October, is now also a quiz question. He is the answer to the query: Who was India’s finance secretary when the government