'Bantering with Bandits': Annie Zaidi's searing truths about Indian preoccupations and peculiarities
This book of essays creates a space where the personal and the political fuse to paint an often uncomfortable picture of our sociopolitical reality.
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This book of essays creates a space where the personal and the political fuse to paint an often uncomfortable picture of our sociopolitical reality.
Belonging to the 1975 batch of IPS, Raman was the superintendent of Bhind district in MP, when he led the sensational 14-hour-long police encounter in which athlete-turned-dacoit Paan Singh Tomar was killed on October 1, 1981.
In 2003, as the IG of the Border Security Force (BSF) in Srinagar, Raman spearheaded a challenging 10-hour encounter that eliminated dreaded terrorist Ghazi Baba, the mastermind behind the Parliament attacks.
Director who examined life in multicultural Britain in pioneering films such as Pressure, a defining work of black British cinema
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