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Even for an administration that has been predictable in its unpredictability, the announcement came as a surprise. Former foreign secretary S. Jaishankar's appointment as foreign minister is one of those rare occasions when a former bureaucrat has been leapfrogged into the high-profile Cabinet Committee on Security. The appointment was reportedly the result of feedback in the PMO that foreign affairs was taking too much of the prime minister's mindspace. Ergo Jaishankar, a trusted advisor, was brought in to share the PM's workload. The appointment also underlined the importance of bureaucrats in the Modi government's scheme of things. These are the officials who call the shots on most key decisions, from security to economic policy to running the PMO to slotting the right bureaucrats in the right job. India today is witnessing