ABOUT THE FAMILY

PARENTS - PARKASH PESHAWARIA AND PREMLATA PESHAWARIA

Kiran Bedi’s parents Parkash and Premlata Peshawaria ( Janak Arora) were a couple who believed in educating their daughters and making them self- reliant. While her father was involved in his family business, he was a passionate tennis player and trained all his 4 daughters to be tennis players. While he groomed the girls in sports, her mother Premlata was very inclined to giving the girls the best education. So as Kiran Bedi says, she had 100% support of her father and 100% support of her mother, which helped her do so well in her career.

IN LAWS- AJIT SINGH BEDI AND PRAKASH BEDI

Kiran Bedi’s father in law Ajit Singh Bedi was a lawyer and her mother in law Prakash Bedi, as a mother, was very supportive of her ambition to be in the police service. She was proud to see Kiran Bedi shine in her career.

HUSBAND- BRIJ BEDI

Kiran Bedi met her husband Brij Bedi on the tennis courts, he was a university champion and it was love through tennis as she calls it. He was a textile engineer who had his own business and he was a well known social activist in Amritsar. He worked with the children and families in Maqboolpura, Amritsar.

DAUGHTER-Saina Bharucha

Kiran Bedi’s daughter Saina Bharucha lives in Pune, is a Vice President of Navjyoti India foundation, permanent trustee of India Vision foundation and the Chief Executive of Demonstrative Learning. Deeply inclined towards spirituality she is reaching out through various programs of Demonstrative Learning to various sections of society. She has a daughter Meher, 14 years old. 

SISTERS

Kiran Bedi, was the second of 4 sisters born to Parkash and Premlata Peshawaria. Her elder sister Shashi is a psychologist and artist in Canada. Her younger sister Dr Reeta Peshawaria Menon was a specialist in autism and the youngest of the sisters Anu Peshawaria is a well –  known immigration lawyer in the United States of America.