MY CORNER
goals amitabh thakur
The path to satisfaction
The attractiveness of opting for
social concern and commitment possibly always outweighs all the material
success I might otherwise get
I joined as an officer of the Indian Police Service and am
even today a member of this service. Yet, over the years, I seem to have
become more and more concerned about issues related to transparency and
accountability in governance. I am also concerned with various human
rights issues, a topic which many people consider as being in exact
opposition to the role of the police in India.
How
and why it happened is a long story, and I must agree that in addition
to external circumstances, there would necessarily have been something
intrinsically within me that slowly but surely helped me drift towards
these areas.
Again,
in classic consonance with the law of conservation of energy, the more I
got involved in these issues, gaining expertise and respectability in
these areas of operations, my career suffered. Thus, while my
batch-mates all across the country are now Inspector-Generals, I
continue to be a Superintendent. More involvement in these areas also
possibly ensured my posting in such branches of police, which in usual
public perception are regarded as non-functional or ‘side posting’.Read More
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