Bihar Diaries, Amit Lodha
Bihar Diaries, Amit Lodha
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Bihar Diaries
The True Story of How Bihar's Most Dangerous Criminal Was Caught

Author: Amit Lodha

Narrator: Dev J. Haldar

Unabridged: 7 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/22/2021

Synopsis

Bihar Diaries narrates the thrilling account of how Amit Lodha arrested Samant Pratap, one of Bihar's most feared ganglords, notorious for extortion, kidnapping and the massacre of scores of people. The book follows the adrenaline-fuelled chase that took place across three states during Amit's tenure as superintendent of police of Shekhpura, a sleepy mofussil town in Bihar.
How does Amit navigate between his many professional challenges and conquer his demons? What does he do when the ganglord comes after his family? Bihar Diaries captures vividly the battle of nerves between a dreaded outlaw and a young, urbane IPS officer.

About The Author

Amit Lodha is an IPS officer currently serving as IG of BSF. Over the course of his career, he has been a part of a number of successful police operations, including the arrest of gangsters and rescue of kidnapping victims. He has been awarded the prestigious President's Police Medal for Gallantry and the Internal Security Medal for his work. Together with Akshay Kumar, he has also worked to found the website bharatkeveer.gov.in.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Atulaa on July 18, 2018

This was a great quick vacation read for me, which is telling because I don't often flirt with cop chases as a genre. It was very interesting to read about Bihar in its 'jungle raj' days and its caste politics (Lodha calls it 'clan loyalty' in the book), a subject I don't think is written about enou......more

Goodreads review by Arun on February 17, 2019

A few days after I finished reading this story, a YouTube channel that I follow uploaded a video essay titled “Do We Need Villains ? | Police Edition “. Taking two South Indian movies namely Action Hero Biju (a Malayalam movie) and Theeran : Adhigaram Ondru ( a Tamil movie), the essay explored the f......more

Goodreads review by Prince on August 09, 2018

"Chacha vidhayak hai hamare Bh$€¥".This is the Bihar. Politics is in our blood, We are Power-hungry people.we never look inward, we always look outward. In spite of knowing who we are we always believe in whom we know.we idolise the criminals, ganglords, mafia like Gods and feel fine and blessed. In......more

Goodreads review by Jayasree on July 25, 2018

Vijay Samrat is a man whose notoriety increases with every heinous crime he commits. And with time his reach extends to the lowest and highest strata of  Bihar society. Our author, Amit Lodha, at the peak of his career, gets transferred to an outback with the barest of amenities and the gruesomest c......more

Goodreads review by Anuj on October 26, 2019

I came across this book by chance when I saw Mr Lodha's Ted Talk on YouTube. I was really drawn in by the way he described the events in the book, and I wanted to read it to know more. Although I had heard the entire story in multiple interviews that Mr Lodha gave, it was still fun to read the finer......more

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