“One thing I tell all the young people: don’t be blinded by infatuation.
Her husband, according to the IPS officer, is very supportive and a good partner. I hope my boys grow up to be responsible men who support women’s legitimate rights in their lives and at work,” she says. Do not raise them as entitled heirs and mummy’s boys who believe they have the right to trample on others. This is what I will tell all boys’ parents: teach them to appreciate and respect women’s roles and power. “Our relationship is very open and close. The Additional DGP rank officer describes her two sons as a blessing in her life.
Indeed, my idea of utopia is to be in a hammock in my garden, listening to music, reading a book, or gazing into the greenery, with a dog curled nearby!” I’m never bored when I can spend time in my garden with my dogs or read a book. In fact, it fills those small gaps of unutilized time when one is bored. When asked how she finds time for her hobbies, the senior cop responds, “When you love doing something, you make time for it. Let the plants grow and flourish,” says the IPS officer, who attended Lady Sriram College before attending Jawaharlal Nehru University. I must have plants and trees because I prefer a natural look to a manicured look. I try to recreate a small piece of my childhood green forest wherever I spend time, whether at work or at home. Abhilasha is an avid gardener with a large dog family. She claims that her upbringing instilled in her a lifelong love of the environment, particularly plants, as well as her faithful companions – dogs – and reading. “All bungalows had small libraries, with books from an eclectic group of authors ranging from Virginia Woolf to Punch and Judy, Guy de Maupassant, Arthur Conan Doyle, HG Wells, Daphne du Maurier, and Edgar Allen Poe, which I remembered reading and then promptly found myself haunted every night by figments of my imagination,” laughs Abhilasha, whose husband Kumar Vishwajeet is also a senior IPS officer and her batchmate. She recalls fondly her stays in old colonial bungalows in the midst of dense jungles.
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So we would get hands-on science and math education as we walked and stayed inside forests or made camp, as we learned how to start fires and get light from petrol lamps, as we walked to rivers that emanated from pristine glaciers and tumble large boulders, polished stones,” recalls the mother of two. “When your teacher is with you, there will inevitably be classes even during vacations. “So, I had a guru (her mother) at home who was my role model, apart from the times I fought with her as all children do,” says the 1994 batch IPS officer, who is currently serving as Additional DGP, Telangana State Special Police.Ībhilasha’s mother, who was a teacher, ensured that she excelled in school. Abhilasha attended Welham’s Girl School in Dehradun, where her mother taught. It’s those adventures, long-distance treks, and time spent in nature’s splendour that make Abhilasha a committed, dynamic, and hardworking cop, even as she balances her busy schedule between family and work.Ībhilasha’s father is a retired government official who was transferred all over the state of undivided Uttar Pradesh (back then, Uttarakhand was part of UP), and her mother is a Dehradun-based school teacher.
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