TACKLING RACISM NEEDS A MULTIPRONGED APPROACH : ROBIN HIBU

Robin Hibu, the first IPS officer from Arunachal Pradesh, is often referred to as the 'Robin Hood of Delhi'. He is currently serving as the Special Commissioner of Police/Additional Director General of Police, New Delhi. His NGO, Helping Hands is an initiative that works towards making the National Capital, read Delhi, safe for the people from the northeast.

He has won several prestigious awards and notable among these are the Ati Utkrisht Seva Padak (2021) Samajik Ratna Puraskar (2007), Social Work for Minorities Award in 2018 by Delhi Minorities Commission and the Global Mahatma Gandhi Award, 2019. For services rendered to the country, he has won the President of India Police Medal for Meritorious Service and the President of India Police Medal for Distinguished Services in 2010 and 2017, respectively. He has led UN missions and he was awarded the UN Peace Medal for Meritorious Services in Bosnia in 1998. The following year he won the UN Peace Medal for Distinguished Services in Kosovo.

Here are excerpts from an exclusive that Robin Hibu had with Northeast Today recently.

NET : You are a role model for the people of the northeast. Who is/was your role model?

Robin Hibu : Mahatma Gandhi is someone who has influenced me immensely. My father, Jesus Christ, and Mother Teresa have also had an immense influence on me. So, I think the question is that if somebody has to be different from others it has to become out from the heart.

NET : Your writings always touch the hearts of the readers as they seem to come alive. Your thoughts on this?

Robin Hibu : In life, if somebody is speaking from the heart and if someone experiences something on the ground, thoughts and writings always tend to be natural. I have experienced things from the ground, so what I write I would say that I write from the core of my heart. I want to relate it from ground zero.

NET : Would you like to share something about a father-son moment with our readers?