What happened to me It was 31st October, 1998 at 1:30 pm. The passing out parade of our IPS batch at the National Police Academy had just gotten over. In the IPS Mess, we were celebrating the completion of our training. Yay! I was now a real IPS officer — not a...
If you set fire to a lump of RDX, it does not explode – it just burns harmlessly. To unleash its killer explosive power, all you have to do is – hook it to a detonator (a thin pencil-like explosive device). Similarly, to achieve our life goals, we often...
In IIT hostels, most of us were 2 am warriors. We would be routinely awake till 2 or 3 am, and the canteen would be crowded after midnight. That may sound heroic, but hear out the rest of the story before you decide. Since the night was infinitely long (in our mind),...
A few years ago, I noticed a very strange pattern. Whenever I would do an intense workout, especially long runs, it instantly flipped how I perceived life. Now, at first blush, it may not sound all that remarkable – after all, it is pretty well known that an...
In 2002, after becoming President, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was visiting VSSC (Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre), Trivandrum, where he had worked earlier. In a conference room, he and the scientists were busy, talking like old friends. As the Trivandrum City Police chief, I was...
