Face to Face with Dr Kiran Bedi

In sync with our philosophy, HT-PACE continued its endeavor of providing class events to the city of Bhopal, which was immensely appreciated by all principals and intelligentsia of the city. One fine afternoon, the new PACE manager Alpana Mishra walked into the office with a great cheer on her face. She was happy!!! We did not know why, but yes, she wanted to share something with all of us. She made an announcement, "We were going to have Ms Kiran Bedi to address our Principals Meet this year". WOW!!! That was the word.

Thanks to our Resident Editor Mr Askari Zaidi, who had initiated a communication with the Supercop! And then he had extended the invitation for the HT-PACE Principals Meet. So there she was. The moment, the news was out, the entire PACE team was on their toes to start the preparations for the Meet.

Myself and my counterpart Anoop Singh sprung into action. The first thing that we needed to do was to prepare a campaign for the Principals Meet publicity. And the task had to be carried out by none other than our official designer Manish Choure. We shared the concept of the Principals Meet with him and informed that we were also having Dr Chakraborty from IIM Kolkata to address the Principals Meet besides Ms Kiran Bedi.

And as usual, our dear friend Manish Choure never let us down and came up with a brilliant campaign highlighting the side portrait of Ms Kiran Bedi and the advt stated:

FACE TO FACE
WITH THE SUPERCOP KIRAN BEDI.

The advertisements won a great applause among the HT readers as well as the school fraternity.

Dr Kiran Bedi was a phenomenon in herself. She had taken the school principals, teachers and the student community by a storm. She had transformed lives through her enigmatic presence. A personal and one-to-one interaction with the school principals had made their dreams come true - to be able to witness a phenomenon.

It was simply unimaginable, that the students come to school on a Sunday. But the school ground of Carmel Convent S S School, BHEL was chockablock with students at 7 am in the morning- with children pouring in from all parts of the city to be able to come face to face with the super cop.

Rest is history!!!