We see a lot of movies made on cops. In India especially Bollywood/Tollywood movies, the majority of them portray cops in a negative light, of course there are small exceptions.

We had an altercation with our neighbour and I visited the Police Station to lodge a complaint. It was the worst experience and I believe that one should have guts of steel to visit a police station in India. There were people sitting on the floor and then a senior cop comes out. He starts shouting at the people crouched on the floor and starts hitting them with his shoes. The Sub Inspector of Police whom I went to meet seemed to fly into a rage at the drop of a hat. In the span ranging from a few minutes to hours there were people dropping in with all sorts of horror stories. It seems it was too much for the SI and he was losing his cool.

This cop walks out and starts beating up a man with a bamboo stick right in front of everyone. I felt sick in my stomach. What else can I say except that it was a nauseating experience. I met this guy who had lost his passport and wanted the cops signature for getting his duplicate passport issued. He has been visiting the Police Station for the past 4 days and was supposed to travel to UK in a weeks time. I asked him about his experience dealing with the cops. He pointed at one of the constables and told me that he is the worst guy he has dealt with. This cop was asking him money for getting a duplicate passport issued. I felt sorry for the guy.

There was this lady who visited the Police Station to complain against her drunken husband who was subjecting her to physical and verbal abuse. The lady asked me whether it was okay to file charges against her husband. I told her that if she kept quiet, things are only going to get worse. She was apprehensive that her husband would be released after a few days in detention and then torture her even more.

She was from a poor family and the police it seems were not willing to register her complaint. She was sobbing along with her mother. I felt the pain of the lady.

Overall the impression which Indians have about Indians cops seems more or less correct. Reality bites and in India it bites hard.
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The scorching summer sun has made life miserable with temperatures hovering around 40+ degrees especially in cities like Hyderabad. Coupled with power cuts it keeps getting worse. On the lighter side, I go to work daily but with the crazy summer going to office has become a compulsion coz that's where you can enjoy the comfort of an air conditioned environment without paying the attendant electricity bills :)

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The election results were announced on 16th May and personally I am disappointed with the results. I am not sure where my vote went and literally puzzled at the voting trends of the people. I am not insulting their intelligence here but not sure whether they voted with their head or heart. The one saving grace is that the Left parties will no longer be a part of the government and remote controlling every decision of the government.