O ne morning, a distinguished filmmaker – someone I had known both as a colleague and a friend – called me out of the blue. His voice carried that unmistakable tone of intrigue, the kind that tells you something interesting is coming. ‘Would you like to write a biography?’ he asked.

My instinctive response: ‘Whose?’

‘An IPS officer. Prashant Kumar.’ Show Full Article

I took a beat. ‘Prashant Kumar, you mean…?’

Across the line, he clarified, ‘He is in the UP Police. That big moustache.’

And just like that, the image clicked in my mind. ‘Oh, you mean the top cop of UP? Yeah, of course, I know him … I mean, I keep seeing him on television.’

Every time there was an encounter in UP, there he was – Prashant Kumar, the moustachioed Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, staring unflinchingly

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