{"id":67008,"date":"2009-09-19T06:24:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T06:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=67008"},"modified":"2009-09-19T06:24:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T06:24:19","slug":"the-bullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/the-bullet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bullet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_67015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67015\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Julio.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67015\" title=\"Julio Ribeiro\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Julio.jpg\" alt=\"Julio Ribeiro\" width=\"620\" height=\"476\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Julio Ribeiro<\/strong><br \/><strong>Age:<\/strong> 80<br \/><strong>Profession:<\/strong> Was DGP Punjab Police. He survived an assassination attempt while he was ambassador to Romania<br \/><strong>On weekends:<\/strong> He is a regular at Sunday mass. He also loves going to the races <strong>Photo:<\/strong> Himmat Singh Shekhawat<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><strong>AGE?<\/strong> \u201cThe best way to deal with it is to forget about it,\u2019\u2019 chuckles Julio Ribeiro. The former cop who became famous for his \u201cbullet for bullet\u201d policy in Punjab has long retired from uniform but not from policing, it seems. He is 80 and going strong and his mantra is simple \u2013 keep busy by doing something for society.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The anti-Muslim riots left a deep scar on this proud Mumbaikar who has relentlessly been working to combat communalism through\u00a0<em>mohalla\u00a0<\/em>committees. It is not unusual to spot Ribeiro in different slums, talking about communalism, corruption and domestic violence.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The only person who can slow down the unstoppable energy that so envelopes Ribeiro, is his wife Melba. Mention her name and his tone softens as he says, \u201cShe comes with me even for the slum meetings. We are separated only for about six hours everyday.\u2019\u2019 Love, too, has kept this man going.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AGE? \u201cThe best way to deal with it is to forget about it,\u2019\u2019 chuckles Julio Ribeiro. The former cop who became famous for his \u201cbullet for bullet\u201d policy in Punjab has long retired from uniform but not from policing, it seems. He is 80 and going strong and his mantra is simple \u2013 keep busy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":67021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56],"tags":[4172,2298,6744,6942,6943,6944,279,5507,6934],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}