Current Affairs : Jai Kiran Bedi!
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If Rani Lakshmi Bai and Rani Chennamma of Kittur were some of the heroic queens we worshipped as children, it was Kiran Bedi who was the heroine of our teenage years.
She was the one we all wanted to be like, heroic, upright, tough and altogether wonderful in our eyes.
To see this symbol of honesty carted away in a police van under arrest was such a powerful image that brought contempt on the heads of those who took the decision and pity on those who were forced to implement it.
When the corrupt are powerful, do the honest belong in jail?
“swasti prajAbhyah paripAlayantAm, nyAyEna mArgENa mahI mahIs’Ah : “Let there be good for the people and those who rule them, may the earth and its rulers walk in the path of justice”
May those in power renounce corruption and may the incorruptible rise to power!
Jai Kiran Bedi!
More Details via www.kiranbedi.com
“Kiran Bedi, Ph.D, is India’s first and highest ranking (retired in 2007) woman officer who joined the Indian Police Service in 1972. Her experience and expertise include more than 35 years of tough, innovative and welfare policing.
She has worked with the United Nations as the Police Advisor to the Secretary General, in the Department of Peace Keeping Operations. She has represented India at the United Nations, and in International� forums on crime prevention, drug abuse, police and prison reforms and women’s issues.
She has also been a National and an Asian Tennis champion.
Recipient of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award (also called the Asian Nobel Prize), and several other decorations, Dr. Bedi is an author of several books, anchors radio and television shows and is a columnist with leading newspapers and magazines. She is a sought after speaker on� social, professional and leadership issues.
She is the founder of two NGOs, Navjyoti and India Vision Foundation, which� reach out to over 10,000 beneficiaries daily, in the areas of� drug abuse treatment, schooling for children of prisoners, in addition to� education, training, counseling, and health care to the urban and rural poor.
Kiran Bedi has been voted as India’s most admired woman� and fifth� amongst all Indians.
