>> Yesterday, we had tea with the gentlest giant we have ever met: Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Himanshu Roy. We ought to have remembered what his lovely wife had said to us about her dashing husband when we had met a few months ago at an art gallery. “He’s a complete softy,” she’d said affectionately. “Tough outside, but the most sensitive soul inside.”

But perhaps even that would not have prepared us for the meeting, which took place at the police headquarters at Crawford Market. Roy, the son of a doctor and a Mumbai boy through and through (Campion School and St Xavier’s College), handles some of the police’s most critical departments. “Five aspects of crime make up my responsibility,” he said to us over tea.