P. V. Rajgopal

P.V. Rajgopal selected to the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1965. Half his service career was spent in Madhya Pradesh and the other half with the Government of India. He has had a variety of assignments during his thirty-six years of service - from chasing dacoits in the Chambal region to taking measures to save the tiger in the wilds of the Madhya Pradesh forests, and from collecting and collating intelligence to training IPS officers. The British, The Bandits and The Bordermenis Rajgopal's third book. His first, We Did It, was about teamwork and the training of IPS officers. The second, I Was Nehru's Shadow, was also based on the diaries and articles of K.F. Rustamji. It is not very often that one comes across a police officer with such a wide array of literary and artistic talents and tastes. Rajgopal's interests range from painting (oil on canvas) and European classical music to the study of Indian temple art and architecture