Lucid Intervals- A Policeman's Testimony (An Autobiography)

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My 35 years in Police passed as a period of adjustments and readjustments with people and circumstances but without a moment of surrender and compromise. My lessons came from my love for digging truth and exposing the lies and falsehoods that were weapons of the corrupt and swollen headed people. I was born to face the devils and bring them to the level of men. I have lived a life of austerity, curtailing my worldly needs, enjoying the naturalness of conflicts in nature from where I drank the elixir of my life. Rising to the top was not my aim but it came to me and in all humility I performed my duties. A man, rather every man is born with lust for life and this leads him to change things and relations. I have known the strains of the periods of painful readjustments and shalow optimism. I have grown with hope and all that the hope can give when you sincerely work for attaining your hope. In Police officialdom, insane persons at the top are considered divinely inspired and they are worshipped, adored, lionized. Their talent lies in the realm of paranoia in which they substitute their own delusions and hallucination for reality. We suffer them and hope to be like them. At the top we can use their ability to see more than one reality in our each action and gesture. Realities of life can't be given colours and hues of experiments. They have to be truths, even if in nudes or bare bodies and chills and bitterpills. As a gentleman there are things of which I must speak but as a civil servant I must sin with a mask on my face and speak out what I see on naked faces.

THE AUTHOR Novelist, short story writer, poet, linguist, art historian, art critic, painter, sculptor, social scientist, sportsman and a filmmaker, O.C. Sharma adorns the name Onkar Chandra Sharma, who writes under the nom-de-plume Onkar Rahi, was born on 20th May, 1940 in a family of scholars, traditionally devoted to the studies of Sanskrit and oriental languages. A combination of sports and scholarship, love for research, astrology, occult, tantra, culture, Vedic studies and social services makes Mr. Rahi a rare personality in India. He joined prestigious Indian Police Service at the age of 23 and retired at the top most rank as Director General of Police from Madhya Pradesh. Mr. Rahi is credited with eight novels in Hindi and one in English, two collection of short stories, two books on liguistics, an anthology of poems. His nine outstanding and bestseller Coffee-table books on Indian art include: Khajuraho Unknown, The Devi: Shakta Cult , Rasamanjari: The Nectarous Ocean , Growth and Tradition of Pahari Miniature Painting , Kangra School of Painting , Basohli School of Painting , Ragas and Raginis: Indian Classical Musical Modes , Khajuraho: Lok Katha Se Itihas Tak (in Hindi) , Khajuraho: Mithun Yugam (in Hindi) His edited works include 'Crime Against Women', 'M.P. Police Journal', and `Kangra Anuual', an art Magazine. His hobbies include collection of rare books, coins, paintings, sculpture and antiques. Presently, he is settled in his home town, Kangra in Himachal Pradesh under the snow clad Western Himalayas and is involved in social and charitable activities in addition to his literary pursuits.

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