"Vardi Wale Guruji" - Ayodhya Super-Cop Who Takes Teacher Avatar Off-Duty
NDTV
Ranjit Yadav, a 2015-batch sub-inspector, is posted at the office of Ayodhya Range deputy inspector general (DIG) of police. But off duty, he is known as "Vardi Wale Guruji", the teacher in uniform.
It's an incongruous scene - a policeman in uniform teaching basic Hindi, English and Math to a bunch of children sitting under a tree.
Ranjit Yadav, a 2015-batch sub-inspector, is posted at the office of Ayodhya Range deputy inspector general (DIG) of police. But off duty, he is known as "Vardi Wale Guruji", the teacher in uniform.
His students are mostly the children of beggars who throng the narrow lanes between the temples and 'maths' on the ghats of the Saryu in this holy city.
Some are orphans, like 12-year-old Mehak who stays with her distant relatives.