Chowky

There are a lot of instances where the media portrays policemen as being brutal people who keep bashing up innocents in their lockup. While this is not true, they do use this image of theirs... for respect or getting the work done. The very threat of torture, or even of the policemen lifting his danda is so potent that it can scare the wits out of anyone.


Unless you know them of course. I honestly believe that the police should be given a pay rise. It is simply pathetic to see them struggling so hard to earn a little extra money. Just came back after spending an hour and a half under the police. We were caught for sitting near the national park without a license. We were smoking and having thums up, and someone complained that we were boozing. So he put us in and started threatening us... the usual dope, calling our parents and making them pay money and that there was another bigger officer on the way who would extort more money from us or something of that sort. Same place, some time ago, a bunch of us friends were simply on a stroll through the forest, when two forest guards, not even policemen, charged us with the offence of disturbing their census - tbe animals are counted everyear. We go off after paying fifty bucks.


This time it was a hundred. The only problem was we had gone after an instantaneous plan, and we didn't have such kind of money on us... a friend came over and helped us out after we gave him a call. Anirudh, who helped us out, warned me against backanswering the police, not because I have the guts or anything, but because I lack the sense about how to talk to them... stupid in such matters actually. Got free from that godforsaken place, and the only sad thing is that yeoor is no longer a hangout now, because of the friggin new chowky that has come into place right next to our regular tapri, and the godforsaken patrols that happen all the time now. Sad shit, this.