A man of action

On fire: Brij Bedi by Nona Khanna
Pages: 137. Price: not mentioned

Barring what trickles through the media occasionally not much is known about Brij Bedi – better known as the supercop Kiran Bedi’s husband. One had a hazy idea that he was a well-off businessman – a skeletal image that needed to be fleshed up. This book does the job quite well. It tells us of Bedi’s attempts at making Amritsar a clean and tidy place – worthy of its status as the holy city. Then there are glimpses of his philanthropy and various other acts of social service like his battles against drug addiction in the society, his attempts at self-improvement by acquiring various skills like photography – which he employed admirably while documenting rare frescoes at Gurudwara Baba Atal Rai. In this narrative Brij Bedi comes through as a man of positive action personifying the motto per ardua ad astra (through endeavour to the stars).
Worth a read. Proof-reading could’ve been better.

THE TRIBUNE