Prakash Singh

There is only one way out – and it is that the government of India and the Maoists should sit across the table and sort out their differences.

For a force trained to follow orders, even those given with scant regard to the letter of the Constitution, it is perhaps not entirely wrong to blame the political masters for the atrocities the police frequently unleash on those who dare to question government policy.

The violence on Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus on Sunday evening and the alleged police inaction against the perpetrators, who rampaged through the campus and beat students, has once again raised many a question on the police force.

'In my community, there are thousands of Nirbhayas. You can’t even imagine the way they are raped and killed,' Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, trans rights activist said.

Indian Police are stuck in the colonial mould. They need autonomy from state governments, extensive structural reforms and better working conditions, writes ex top-cop Prakash Singh

Trans-border ops may have more optic value, but internal security needs a revamp

The Centre and states have been dragging their feet on long overdue changes

Despite losses, Maoist insurgency is nowhere close to extinction

We need to transform ruler’s police into people’s police.

The former BSF director-general Prakash Singh who headed the inquiry on the violence that raged in Haryana in February talks about the matter

Don’t blame the security forces, work to reform them