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 Since the Director of the National Academy in salubrious Mussorie was unnerved by the recent events in Tamil Nadu in southern India involving policemen and since he feared that recruitment of Indian Police Service officers to that State could go down steeply like the rupee value, Jaal took it upon itself to consult various experts and present the Director a document on its findings. Here is a privileged peep to Jaal readers:Starry-eyed young persons opt to join the police force with fierce commitment to rule of law and equality of everyone before law. They would like to place the honour of the uniform before everything else and do their duty to the best of their ability. Like everyone else they may also like to raise good families and cultivate in their offspring the same noble qualities. However, independent India has been changing and changing fast (we have a lot to catch up with, don't we?) One cannot always anticipate everything when in the course of duty one goes to, not arrest, but to seek the co-operation of senior politicians to answer some questions in an investigation. Here comes the rub! The aged politico may invite you into his bedroom in the wee hours of the night and say he will get ready and follow you but later on allege that you violated his privacy and insisted on staying there even when he changed his underwear. He may come out smiling and exchanging pleasantries with senior officers whom he could recognize but the moment his powerful relative arrives, stage manage a scene which will put you in a very poor light He may sag and shout and his powerful relative may punch you in the eye more than once. All the family members who were reconciled a few minutes earlier to the politico being taken away may shout and jostle you and even the lady members may allege later you misbehaved with them. You might have read out the reasons why you went there at such an hour but later on you may be hauled over the coals by your own political masters for 'having botched a perfect operation' Next when you take the person in your vehicle the powerful relative may ram his way in and refuse to get out and when you are left with no option but to get him out he may beat you on the head and kick you in the shoulders with all his might and then get admitted in a hospital and cry he was punched by you in the place where his pacemaker is fitted. Then only a few minutes later he may come in a powerful car with revolving red light and force his way into the place where interrogation is going on and his followers may vandalise the office and records. His other colleague, equally powerful according to his own shouts, may push you and your brother officer unceremoniously in front of your junior officers and shout at you within inches of your face that he would deal with you. You may have followed the rulebook but it might still be thrown at you by the media, by other politicians and once well meaning commentators and everyone will bay for your blood. Still, you will have to be a cucumber ! be stony faced and stare straight at the horizon and not move even one muscle in your face!! Take it all in your stride, young person ! Since you are all starry eyed, you may and will see the stars when you are punched in your eyes. Do not think for a moment that officers getting posted to Tamil Nadu alone will be thus privileged. You can choose any state - Bihar or Uttar Pradesh or West Bengal, not to leave out great Haryana etc. Don't just give up! Just look at the equally starry eyed fellows opting for the Indian Administrative Service and pity their plight. What can these pen pushers do? At least you have the lathi, the tear gas shell and even the pistol, if it comes to that. So join the IPS and go to Tamil Nadu, first. You may even catch the forest brigand Veerappan one day and earn the President's medal for distinguished service. All the best. RECENTLY ON JAAL: Talks In Fool Swing Musings On Mush Amma Mia Poll Vault: The Rough Guide Delhi's Traffic Jam Being Believed Extinct Exists!! Truth Or Bare Holi Wholly Unholy Asking For The Moon Excise Excise Bush Speechless The Moron's Hack Miss Whirl Chatterbox 6 Chatterbox 5 Chatterbox 4 Chatterbox 3 Chatterbox 2 Chatterbox 1 Cloud Nine The Son Always Shines Glam Slam Autonomy Retort The Sri Lankan Mulberry Bush Take The Green Quiz A Tiger By The Tail 1000000000+ Chandrachud Rereported The Second Coming Of Bill Are You A Bollywood Buff? SEND US YOUR FEEDBACK ABOUT THIS ARTICLE:
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