Madhu Bhaduri

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Madhu Bhaduri (* 1945 in British India ) is an Indian author, documentary filmmaker and diplomat. She was a founding member of the Aam Aadmi Party in 2012 , but distanced herself from the political group in 2014.

Life

Bhaduri comes from a multicultural family. Her grandmother was from Lucknow , the capital of the state of Uttar Pradesh , and her grandfather was a Punjabi . She joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1968 and began her diplomatic career in Vienna in 1970 . In 1971 she married the economics professor Amit Bhaduri and they have two daughters. In 1974 she worked as a diplomat in Hanoi , 1981 in Vienna, from 1984 to 1992 in Mexico City and then until 1996 as Consul General in Hamburg . Then she was the successor of Satindra Nath Puriie until 2000 as the ambassador of India in Minsk , Belarus . In 1997 she shot a 90-minute documentary "The Road to Germany" there about undocumented immigrants traveling through Belarus to Lithuania , Poland and finally to Germany. She then was the Ambassador of India in Lisbon , Portugal until 2003 .

Since her retirement in December 2003, she has lived in Delhi with her husband and works as a volunteer for the Parivartan organization . This organization participates in the fight against corruption by using the right to information. From 2012 to 2014 she was a member of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). As one of the founding members of the Young Party, she resigned from all party positions and resigned from the party after she was not allowed to condemn the mistreatment of women. She was the second prominent AAP leader to openly express her opposition after Vinod Binny . She has written four novels and several short stories in Hindi that were published in Delhi, including the 1999 novellas "Jwaar". Her short stories have been published in various Hindi journals. One of her short stories and a novel were published in Russian in the “World Literature” magazine in Minsk

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SURNAME Bhaduri, Madhu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian writer, documentary filmmaker and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH British India