The weight of a uniform

In her revealing memoir, former cop Meeran Chadha Borwankar sheds light on her career in the Indian police service, offering insights into the challenges faced by a woman in a male-dominated field

Madam Commissioner: The Extraordinary Life of an Indian Police Chief

Author: Meeran Chadha Borwankar

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Pages: 296

Price: Rs 499

Public servants who make it to the public eye are either condemned or applauded, both without a larger context, often through isolated instances. A misleading step ahead of journalism, Bollywood creates the heroic, out-of-the-world image of police officers with characters such as Bajirao Singham (2011) or the angry young man from Zanjeer (1973). Meeran Chadha Borwankar, a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from the Maharashtra cadre batch of 1981, has also made it to the news multiple times — for her transfers