

It helps understand the historical, political and cultural difference between the people of Telangana and coastal Andhra, which ultimately led to the failure of the state’s reorganisation on linguistic lines in 1956, and its bifurcation in 2014. The writing, in simple prose yet lucid, also provides a rare glimpse into the nature and character of the changes witnessed by the state in the form of film star NT Ramarao’s entry into electoral politics. While the life of the youngster from Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh and his years preparing to get into the civil services throw some interesting light on the times-like in India, just as the country got out of its teens and entered its age of majority-his policing career through those turbulent years of the Naxalite movement in the Telangana region of undivided Andhra Pradesh reveals a secret on how the menace was curbed with political blessing. The 272-page book is part personal story and part history.
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The autobiography is not just about what happened in his personal or professional life, but it also provides great insights into historical personalities, whom he came in contact with during those years as a police officer. All of these efforts of Jayanth Murali are to present to the discerning reader how policing could become more dependent on technologies in the future, not just for solving crime, but also in its administration and law enforcement.įorty years is a long time in a career in policing and HJ Dora, who has served as one of the youngest Directors General of Police of undivided Andhra Pradesh, has a lot of story to tell from those years. These references to popular sci-fi novels and movies make it much easier for the readers to connect with the chosen topics of his book and provide the necessary context for understanding subjects like Brain Fingerprinting.
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What I find interesting in the book is Jayanth Murali’s repeated reliance on introducing subjects through the themes of best-selling novels and films ranging from Michael Crichton’s 2002 book Prey that is about how nanotechnology is going horribly wrong, to the Hollywood sci-fi movie Rampage starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson that deals with CRISPR or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats or Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise that is all about Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things. He has not only highlighted the manner in which the future technologies could shape policing, but also the pitfalls, including how the same technologies in the wrong hands-criminals and terrorists-could make it difficult for the world. The topics he has handled are all futuristic, emerging technologies that have both uses for the law enforcement and for the common man.


The number 42 seems to have a significant meaning in the senior police officer’s life and it needs to be read in his own words, as he introduces the book to his readers. The manner in which this book-shaped up for the author, despite an active police service in Tamil Nadu, too is a fascinating story of 42 weeks of writing a column for a news daily. It is this sort of a challenge that the microbiologist in Jayanth Murali has handled well and has even excelled in through this 332-page book.
