Now I'm going to give you a story. It's an Indian story about an Indian woman and her journey.

Let me begin with m

y parents.

I'm a product of this visionary mother and father. Many years ago. When I was born in the 50 s and 60 s didn't belon
g to girls in India, they belonged to boys. They belonged to boys who would join business and inherit business from
parents and girls would be dolled up to get varied. My family in my city and almost in the country was unique. We
were four of us, not one and fortunately no boys. We were four girls and no boys and my parents were part of a land
ed property family. My father defied his own grandfather almost to the point of this inheritance, because he decided t
o educate all four of. He sent us to one of the best schools in the city and gave us the best education, as I've said, whe
n we born, we don't choose our parents and when we go to school, we don't choose our school children, don't choose
a school, they just get the school which parents choose for them. So this is the foundation time which I got. I grew u
p like this and so did my other three sisters and my father used to say at that time I'm going to spread all my four dau
ghters in four corners of the world. I don't know whether he really meant, but it happened. I'm the only one who's lef
t in India. 1 is a British, another is an American and a third is a Canadian, so we are four of us in four corners of the
world. And since I said they're my role models, I followed two things which my father and mother gave me one. The
y said life is on an incline. You either go up or you come down. And second thing which has stayed with me, which
became my philosophy of life, which made all the difference. Is 100 things happen in your life good or bad. Out of 1
00,90 are your creation. They're good. They're your creation. Enjoy it. If they're bad, they're your creation, learn fro
m it. 10 are nature sent over which you can't do a thing. It's like a death of a relative or a cyclone or a hurricane or an
earthquake. You can't do a thing about it. You've got to just respond to the situation, but that response comes out of
those 90 points since I'm a product of this philosophy of 90 ,10 and secondly life on an incline. That's the way I grew
up. I grew up to be to be valuing what I got. I'm a product of opportunities, rare opportunities in the 50's and the 60's
which girls didn't get and I was conscious of the fact that what my parents were giving me was something unique be
cause all my best school friends were getting dolled up to get married with a lot of dowry. And here I was with a ten
nis racket and going to school and doing all kind of extracurricular. I thought I must tell you this why I said this is th
e background. This is what comes to next. I joined the Indian Police Service. As a tough woman, a woman with inde
fatigable stamina because I used to run for my tennis titles, at cetera, but I joined the Indian police. And then it was a
new pattern of policing for me. The policing stood for power to correct power to prevent and power to detect this is
something like a new definition ever given in policing in India the power to prevent because normally it was always
said power to detect and that's it a power to punish. But I decided no, it's a power to prevent because that's what I lea
rned when I was growing up. How do I prevent the 10 and never make it more than 10, so this is how it came into m
y service and it was different from the men I didn't want to make it different from the men. But it was different beca
use this is the way I was different and I redefined policing concepts in India. I'm going to take you to two journeys,
my policing journey and my prison journey. What you see if you see the title called PM's car held. There's a first tim
e prime minister of India. Was given a parking ticket. That's the first time in India and I can tell you. There's the last
time you're hearing about it. It will never happen again in India because now it is 1 cent forever. And the rule was be
cause I was sensitive, I was compassionate. I was very sensitive to injustice and I was very pro justice. That's the rea
son as a woman I joined the Indian police officer. I had other options, but I didn't choose them, so I'm going to move
on. This is about tough policing, equal policing. Now I was known that here's a woman who is not going to listen, s
o I was sent to all indescriptive postings postings to others would say. No, I now went to a prison assignment as a po
lice officer. Normally police officers don't want to do prison. They send me to prison to lock me up thinking now the
re would be no cars and no VIPs to be given tickets to let's lock her up. Here I got a prison assignment. This was a pr
ison assignment which is one big den of criminals. Obviously it was but 10000 men. Of which only 400 were wome
n, 10000 9000 plus about 600 were men terrorists. Rapist. Burglars, gangsters, some of them might send to jail while
as a police officer outside and then how did I deal with them the first day when I went in? I don't know how to look
at them and I said. Do you pray when I looked at the Group I said. Do you pray they saw me as a young short woma
n wearing a potato suit. Their Do you pray and they said they didn't say anything. I said, do you pray you want to pra
y, they said yes, I said, all right, let's pray. I prayed for them and things started to change. This is a visual of educatio
n inside the prison friends. This has never happened where everybody in the prison studies. I started this with comm
unity support. Government had no budget. It was one of the finest largest volunteerism in any prison in the world. T
his was initiated in Delhi prison. You see one sample of prisoner teaching classes. These are hundreds of classes 9 to
11 every prisoner went into education program same then which they thought they would. Put me behind the bar an
d things would be forgotten. We converted this into an ashrama from a prison to an ashram through education. I thin
k that's the bigger change. It is the beginning of a change. Teachers were prisoners. Teachers were volunteers, books
came from donated schoolbooks, stationery was donated. Everything was donated because there was no budget of ed
ucation for the prison. Now if I'd not done that, it would have been a hell hole. That's the second landmark I want to
show you some moments of history in my journey. Which probably you never ever get to see anywhere in the world.
1 the numbers you'll never get to see. Secondly, this concept, this was a meditation program inside the prison of ove
r 1000 prisoners. 1000 prisoners who sat on meditation. This was one of the most courageous steps I took as a prison
governor and this is what transformed you want to know more about this. Go and see this film doing time doing the
passionate you will hear about it and you love it and write to me on Kiran Bedi.com and I'll respond to you. Let me s
how you the next slide. I took the same concept of mindfulness because why did I bring meditation into the Indian pr
ison, because crime is a product of distorted mind. It was distortion of mind which we needed to be addressed to con
trol, not by preaching, not by telling. Not by reading, but by addressing your mind, I took the same thing to the polic
e because police equally were prisoners of their mind and they felt as if it was it was we and they and that the people
don't cooperate. This worked. This is a feedback box called the petition box. A concept which I introduced to listen
to complaints, listen to grievances. This was a magic box. This was a sensitive box. This is how a prisoner drew how
they felt about in the prison and if you see somebody in the blue, yeah this guy. It was a prisoner. And he was a teac
her and you see everybody busy. There was no time to waste. Let me wrap it up. I'm currently into movements, mov
ements of education of the underserved children, which is thousands. India is all about thousands. Secondly is about
anti-corruption movement in India. That's a big way. We as a small group of activists. Have drafted an ombudsman
bill for the government of India friends. You will hear a lot about it. That's the movement at the moment. I'm driving
and that's the movement and a mission of my life. Thank you very much.