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Indian film actor (born )

Kabir Bedi (born 16 January ) is an Indian actor. His career has spanned three continents covering India, the United States and especially Italy among other Western countries in three media: film, television and theatre. He is noted for his role as Emperor Shah Jahan in Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story and the villainous Sanjay Verma in the s blockbuster Khoon Bhari Maang. He is best known in Italy and Europe for playing the pirate Sandokan in the popular Italian TV miniseries and for his role as the villainous Gobinda in the James Bond film Octopussy. Bedi is based in India and lives in Mumbai.

Early life and education

Kabir Bedi was born in Lahore in the Punjab Province of British India (now in Punjab, Pakistan) on 16 January His father, Baba Pyare Lal Singh Bedi, was a Punjabi Sikh author, philosopher and a direct descendent of Guru Nanak. His mother, Freda Bedi, was an English woman born in Derby, England, who became famous as the first Western woman to take ordination in Tibetan Buddhism. He was educated at Sherwood College, Nainital, Uttarakhand, and St. Stephen's College, Delhi.

Career

Bedi began his career in Indian theatre and then moved on to Hindi films. He remains one of the first international actors from India who started out in Hindi films, worked in Hollywood films and became a star in Europe.

Stage acting

As a stage actor, Bedi has performed Shakespeare's Othello as well as portrayed a historical Indian king in Tughlaq, and a self-destructive alcoholic in The Vultures. In London he starred in The Far Pavilions, the West End musical adaptation of M. M. Kaye's novel, at the Shaftesbury Theatre. In Bedi played Emperor Shah Jahan in Taj, a play written by John Murrell, a Canadian playwright for the Luminato Festival in Toronto. In , this play was recommissioned and went on an eight-week

New Delhi: Brij Bedi, social activist and the husband of first woman IPS officer Kiran Bedi, today died at a hospital in Gurgaon following a cardiac arrest.

"Brij Bedi, 76, was suffering from cancer in the bladder, which affected his kidneys too. He was undergoing treatment for the past five months both in Amritsar and Delhi," Kiran Bedi told PTI.

"He was airlifted from Fortis-Escorts in Amritsar and brought to Medanta - the Medicity Hospital on January 28 and admitted in the ICU," Bedi said.

He died around 11 AM after cardiac arrest.

Following her husband's death, Bedi tweeted, "City of Amritsar lost a man who loved his city the most. One who gave all his life to the cause of the needy. We will carry forward his service."

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"He loved his city, Amritsar. Worked passionately to make it better. He educated the children of fathers lost to drugs. He was very concerned about the problem of drug addiction in Punjab. He was a courageous voice for several causes," she tweeted.

Brij Bedi also founded a school in Amritsar which provides education to around children, whose fathers are drug addicts. He was a social activist, an avid photographer and a painter.

Delhi BJP president Satish Upadhyay condoled the death of Brij Bedi saying, "He was a pious man who played an important role in allowing illustrious growth of Kiran Bedi", who was BJP's chief ministerial candidate in the Assembly election.

First female Indian Police Service Officer (born )

Kiran BediPPMGPNBB (born 9 June ) is a former tennis player who became the first woman in India to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS) in and was the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry from 28 May to 16 February She remained in service for 35 years before taking voluntary retirement in as Director General, Bureau of Police Research and Development.

As a teenager, Bedi was crowned the national junior tennis champion in Between and , she won several titles at various national and state-level championships. After joining the IPS, Bedi served in Delhi, Goa, Chandigarh and Mizoram. She started her career as an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) in the Chanakyapuri area of Delhi, and won the President's Police Medal in Next, she moved to West Delhi, where she brought about a reduction in crimes against women. Subsequently, as a traffic police officer, she oversaw traffic arrangements for the Asian Games in Delhi and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Goa. As Deputy Commissioner of Police of North Delhi, she launched a campaign against drug abuse, which evolved into the Navjyoti Delhi Police Foundation (renamed to Navjyoti India Foundation in ).

In May , Bedi was posted to the Delhi Prisons as Inspector General (IG). She introduced several reforms at Tihar Jail, which won her the Ramon Magsaysay Award in In , Bedi became the first Indian and first woman to be appointed head of the United Nations Police and Police Advisor in the United Nations Department of Peace Operations. She resigned in , to focus on social activism and writing. She runs the India Vision Foundation. During –11, she hosted a court showAap Ki Kachehri. She was one of the key leaders of the Indian anti-corruption movement, and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in January She unsuccessfully contested the Delhi Assembly election as the party's Chief Minist