SENIOR retired bureaucrats like Maharashtra State Election Commissioner Neela Satyanarayan have dabbled in poetry and earned quite a name for themselves. In comparison, one rarely hears of a senior cop dabbling in poetry. So Mohammad Quaiser Khalid is in a league of his own. The 1997-batch IPS officer quietly slips into penning a mushaira whenever time and energy permit it. In uniform, however, Khalid is Deputy Commissioner of Police, Port Zone, and deals with such issues as Somali pirates and ship movements off the coast of Mumbai. The policeman-poet has a BA (Honours) degree acquired in Bihar. To him, literature is a means of conveying one’s perception of social situations. He also wants to demolish the stereotype image of a shayar as a man with a broken heart. The young cop has so far written more than 150 poems and is planning to bring out a book by the end of the year.
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