BP Acharya

BP Acharya, a retired IAS officer, was the Special Chief Secretary to the government of Telangana and played an instrumental role in facilitating many world-class industrial clusters in Telangana and AP, such as the Genome Valley, Financial District, Mindspace, Knowledge City, and Sri City. He has been pursuing his childhood hobby of cartooning, emulating legends like RK Laxman, Mario, and Kutty and publishing a regular column titled “Obtuse Angle.” The book Obtuse Angle is a collection of his black and white cartoons, from his initial days as a probationer in Mussoorie and captures the travails of a civil servant’s journey.