Felicitating Kiran Bedi

July 30, 2013: The First Lady IPS Officer of India, Mrs Kiran Bedi, is in city. Today afternoon I went to The Park Hotel to felicitate her at a preview and promotional function organized for the Hindi film Calapor directed by Dinesh P Bhonsle and produced by A Durga Prasad.

It is the first Hindi film of Bhonsle – the Marathi film director. The film is scheduled to be released on August 2.

The film deals with the subject of prison reforms, a topic that is close to the heart of ex-police and current social activist Kiran Bedi who had initiated many such programs at the Tihar jail.

Kiran Bedi is promoting this film was in Kolkata with the message that “prisons should be correctional homes”. The leading actress of this film, Rituparna Sengupta, who has few Hindi films under her belt, was there at the function.

I met Kiran Bedi after a decade and she immediate recognized me and even recalled where we had met the last time. This surprised me because Kiran Bedi in her new avatar of a social activist meets numerous people each day, I must salute her memory. ess bee