Iron Lady Of India.

Kiran Bedi
Bedi at the "Successful Women in Management" (SWIM) conference, 2007
Born	9 June 1949 Amritsar, Punjab, India
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Panjab University, Chandigarh University of Delhi IIT Delhi
Occupation	IPS Officer (1972–2012) Social activist
Religion	Hinduism
Spouse(s)	Brij Bedi
Awards	Suryadatta National Award 2007 United Nations Medal 2004 Ramon Magsaysay Award 1994 President’s Gallantry Award 1979

Kiran Bedi (born Kiran Peshawaria, 9 June 1949) is an Indian social activist and a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer.

In 1972 she became the first woman officer in the IPS.

Bedi held the post of Director General at the Bureau of Police Research and Development before she voluntarily retired from the IPS in December 2007.

Kiran Bedi has been voted as India's most admired (THE WEEK 2002), most trusted woman in India. (Readers Digest, March 2010), MSN Most Admired Indian Female Icon 2011: Most Trusted woman by Navbharat Times 2012

A nonfiction feature film on Dr Bedi's life entitled Yes, Madam Sir has been produced by an Australian film maker, Megan Doneman. The film was adjudged the "Best Documentary" at Santa Barbara International Film Festival. It has been receiving standing ovation in most of its screenings around the world.

Her transparency and straightforward attitude comes in the way of many. However, combined with her compassion and the drive to pursue the right path for a bigger and higher purpose, her attitude becomes her most powerful strength, to the extent that even the toughest kind of hurdles cannot stop her. The magnitude of her revolutionary effect is so strong that it shakes the rusted, outdated beliefs of corrupt establishments from the roots. Despite all attempts to persecute and punish her, she maintains her course to do what is right and becomes the most admired woman of a nation in 2002. Her challenge to corruption and extortion is costly to the safety and well being of her family in many ways, but she does not lose focus, stays undeterred and keeps marching forward. Among scores of her contribution during her career, one of the magnificent effects of her evolutionary actions is apparent when she is able to transform a jail housing hardened convicts into an ashram of education, meditation and reform.

She has been in the vanguard of a nationwide India Against Corruption Movement: Police and Prison Reforms.

Kiran is an author of several books,namely It's Always Possible,What Went Wrong, As I See, Broom and Groom and Uprising 2011.