Vibhuti Narain Rai
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Vibhuti Narain Rai at Chandigarh Literature Festival 2016
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28 November 1951 Village Jokhara,Post Latghat Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh |
| Occupation | Writer, novelist, activist, translator, police director general, former vice chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Citizenship | India |
| Education | M.A. English |
| Notable works | Ghar, Shahar Mein Curfew, Kissa Loktantra etc. |
| Notable awards |
Indu Sharma Antarrastriya Katha Samman Police Neutrality Fellowship Award |
| Spouse | Padma Rai |
| Children | three |
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Vibhuti Narain Rai (born 28 November 1951) is a police officer and author from India. He obtained an M.A. in English literature from Allahabad University in 1971 and joined the Indian Police Service in 1975 as a part of the Uttar Pradesh cadre. He served many sensitive districts as a superintendent of police.
Between 1992–2001, Rai was seconded to the Government of India, during which time his postings included anti-insurgency operations in the Kashmir Valley (1993–94). Subsequently, Rai has been posted as Additional Director General of Police in Uttar Pradesh. He has been awarded President's Police Medal for Distinguished Services and Police Medal for Meritorious Services.
Rai has also written five works of Hindi literature, being the novels Ghar, Shahar Mein Curfew, Kissa Loktantra, Tabadla and Prem Ki Bhoot Katha. Some of these have been translated into other languages. He has also written satires, including the collection titled Ek Chhatra Neta Ka Rojnamcha. He has authored the chapter An Open Letter to My Fellow Police Officers in the book Gujarat:The making of a tragedy which is about the 2002 Gujarat riots. The book was edited by Siddharth Varadarajan and published by Penguin(ISBN ).
On 4 March 2016 on the occasion of completing 200 years of Treaty of Sugauli, Mr. Rai got Ramesh Chandra Jha Smriti Samman 2016 for his contribution in Hindi literature.
In 1988, Rai published a Hindi novel entitled Shahar Mein Curfew (Curfew in the City). Its theme was a 1980 Hindu-Muslim riot in the city of Allahabad, and Rai wrote freely about how religious prejudice in the Hindu dominated police force and provincial administration led to Muslim citizens' being viewed as enemies and thus becoming easy targets of brutality and murder. The Vishva Hindu Parishad readily took offense and denounced the novel for being anti-Hindu. It now wants a ban imposed on the novel, and when Ashok Singhal, secretary general of the V.H.P., was told of a producer wanting to turn the story into a film, he threatened to burn down theatres that dared to screen the planned film. All this ire surrounds a project that has still not begun and a work of fiction that at no point directly criticizes any Hindu organization. It is worthwhile to quote here from a recent interview given by the author: "The intolerance of dissent is increasing in our society and the Ayodhya mobilization has largely contributed to this disturbing trend. The attacks on inconvenient writers and dissenting journalists are in fact motivated by a desire to silence all criticism and all reason, thereby making the very existence of rationally-thinking people redundant to the social and political process. This is extremely distressing."
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