First Ladies of India

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It cannot get more ironical than this. India swears in her first woman President, Pratibha Patil. The same day, the first Indian woman to join the Indian Police Service in 1972, Kiran Bedi, is denied the post of Police Commissioner of Delhi. The reason? A very lame excuse that she does not have enough active policing experience. Truth is that Kiran Bedi is a woman who is hard to pin down. A woman who has always acted with unrestrained zeal for action - for which she attracted both controversy and admiration in equal measure. Everyone knows that she has been more "active" than any other police person. Can we forget that she earned the moniker Crane Bedi for towing away Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's illegally parked car during her tenure as chief of Traffic Police? That incident reflected her sense of duty and justice. ....