Hyderabad: Stressing the crucial role that empathy plays in understanding women’s problems and making them feel safe, the Additional Director General of Police (CID & WSW), Charu Sinha, recalled how her 1996 batchmate, VC Sajjanar, had supported her.“During our training, we had to accompany the anti-Naxal commando unit, the Greyhounds, into the forests of Adilabad. I remember that, as part of the training, the unit had to spend a night in the forest. All of the Greyhounds personnel were men. There was no toilet, so I had to go and relieve myself. Sajjanar stood guard while I did so. It is with friends like him that we can share our fears and the situations we face. There are sensitive men around us who can understand. It’s not that men are bad. When a man is insensitive, it’s because he was never taught otherwise,” Charu recalled.
