When Education Minister Smriti Irani was grilled by her kids school November 23, 2014 It did not help that she was India’s education minister -- Smriti Irani had to appear in an interview to get her children admitted to a school like any other parent who goes through this nightmare. “Oh yes. I actually got interviewed. When I came from Mumbai to Delhi, the first one month, I tried to work a balance between work and home. I just could not because I barely had six hours to go to Mumbai. I have two young kids, one is 11-year-old and the other is 13-year-old. “For me it was difficult and I said come to Delhi and, mercifully, they listened. It was a difficult shift because my family never lived here and the first thing we did before we came is to give an interview as parents -- got grilled by teachers and principal and then the children were grilled,” she said. During an interaction with journalists at the agency’s headquarters here, Irani spoke in detail about her remarkable journey from her humble origins to a successful TV actor before she joined politics and rose to become a cabinet minister at the young age of 38. She of course did not mind her grilling at the school. “I think processes should not differ just because you are a minister. This is a job, a responsibility, not a right to override the processes that every citizen goes through. So I gave an interview with my husband, got evaluated.” She said she goes to parent teacher association meetings regularly. “I don’t go with a barrage of cops. I think you want to give sense to your children that this is a job, not an entitlement.” Recalling her early years, Irani said she was born in a lower middle class family and could never envisage a future that she has today. “When I was born, all that my parents had was in Munirka, livable space above a tabela (cowshed) and one could never envisage a future that I have today. So, for me I have never walked a path that has been carefully crafted or charted. I have gone into territory unknown on many an occasion,” she said. I © Copyright 2014 PTI. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of PTI content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent. More from rediff: ◀ Irani turns down demands to make Sanskrit compulsory Ronaldo grabs double as Messi breaks goal record ▶ Tags: Smriti Irani, Delhi, Mumbai, India, HRD Get Rediff News delivered into your Inbox daily. Its free! Enter Your email ID: by TaboolaSponsored LinksFrom The Web The Marlboro of Marijuana Economist 10 World’s Strangest Hotels Amerikanki Planning a Trip to Goa? Get the Best Accommodation Rates Here Find My Stay Bin Laden WAS NOT buried at sea, but flown to the U.S. for cremation at secret location, claims intelligence boss in leaked email World Observer
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