Hindustan Times
I first met Vijay Karan around 1993. He had retired as Director of the CBI but his real claim to fame was as one of the best commissioners of police Delhi ever had.
It was Karan who told the Delhi police that they were perceived as being rude and insensitive and began the process of sensitivity-training that still continues. (All that “Delhi Police – With You, For You” stuff is his legacy.) He also stopped the police from beating up suspects routinely and cleaned up the force. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Filed under Rude Food · Tagged CBI, Delhi, hindustan times, Hyderabad, Raja Vijay Karan, Rude Food, South India, V Krishnamurthy, vijay karan, vir sanghvi
It’s a nagging thought that’s never found full expression. But each time I would read about medieval Europeans and their rush to find a way to get to India to discover the riches of the East, something inside me would stir uneasily. Pepper, I would read, was more precious than gold in Europe in those days. A single nutmeg commanded prices we associate with white truffles in modern times.
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