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Heroes who change our world

We need to do that deliberately and develop the insights that can help us live our own lives better

Kanchan, India’s first DGP Police

There is a favourite quote that has stayed with me through the years, “Life is perfectly understood backwards but has to be lived forwards.” Call it Twenty-Twenty Hindsight or Reverse Intelligence, it takes a lot of understanding-of people, of incidents and moments of truth to appreciate how to traverse this journey called life.

Sadly, these lessons often dawn on us when the people who give us these insights have passed on.

One such inspirer in my own life has been Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya, a 1973 batch IPS officer, who made history in 2004 when she was appointed the DGP of Uttarakhand and retired in 2007 as DG Uttarakhand.

She was presented a ceremonial guard of honour by the State police at her farewell parade. After a ten-month heroic struggle with cancer, during which she displayed the same f