Carving helps control anger: Cop

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During his teens, it was a tool to manage anger. Now, sub-inspector A. Veerachamy has become passionate about miniature carving and plans to use his hobby to enter the Guinness Book of Records for the time spent carving continuously by holding a marathon show.

Veerachamy does not use any laser beam or hi-tech equipment to carve his pieces. “I have only a blade, needle and lens to do this,” he says.

The man who can carve on anything, be it wax, stone, matchstick or throne, began miniature carving during his college days.

“I used to get angry about every thing during my college days and I was aware of it. So I started focusing on carving. This helped me concentrate and control my anger,” he recalls.

“In those days, I also found that I was not of much use to my family. I was very lazy and was not able to do anything properly.

This carving was a tool that helped me improve. It gave me a lot of confidence,” recalls Veerachamy, who has been working in the police department for the last six years.

Veerachamy, who belongs to Theni district and is now with the law and order wing of the Zam Bazaar police station, has more than 50 pieces in his collection of carvings.

After completing his B.Com it was natural for him to join the police force as people in uniform are highly respected in his village.

“An uncle is also in the police department. In the village, everybody thinks highly of policemen and those in the defence forces,” he says when he asked about how he landed up in policing.

Veerachamy joined as a constable in 2006 and became sub inspector after clearing another round examinations in 2008.

Now his only worry is that he was not getting enough time to indulge in his hobby. Every piece of work takes a long time to finish. “Nowadays I do not have such time to invest,” he says.

Veerachamy plans to work on a series of miniature carvings based on the Mahabharata and Ramayana. “I hope to complete it as early as possible but I will have to first read both epics thoroughly before deciding on the scenes in them that I will work on,” he says.