Aruna bahuguna biography of christopher

It was the year 1978, and independent India, just over three decades old, was blooming with change. 

It was also a time when women slowly began coming out of their shells and working in fields that were otherwise considered male bastions.

In fact, just a few years prior in ‘72, India had seen her first woman IPS officer — Kiran Bedi.

For young Aruna Bahuguna, this was an inspiring time to join the force. 

Throughout her life, she had seen women in her house take up and excel in roles and jobs considered “unconventional” for their time.

Her grandmother, she recalls, was the first woman principal of Women’s College in Koti, Hyderabad.

“Widowed at the age of 15, my grandmother paved her way through the world alongside raising her son, and she was my greatest inspiration.

My mother was a journalist. Even at a very young age, I knew I would be a working woman; I would have a career,” s