Good News: Kiran Soni Gupta -- An artist and social activist cum IAS officer

NewsX today brings you the story of an IAS officer with a difference. Kiran Soni Gupta is an artist, writer and an activist administrator. After joining the Indian Administrative Service in 1985, she has held various distinguished assignments in the Government of India, Kerala & Rajasthan. She has studied public policy and development at Maxwell Syracuse and the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University where she was a Mason Fellow in 2005-06. Her works very vividly reflect not only her conviction and clarity on issues relating to women, children, poverty, development, environment but also her keen sense of observation, humility and above all an abounding faith in god and service to humanity and mankind. From sketches, pen & ink works to mixed media she has given new horizons to art forms both traditional and modern.

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