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Yameer Adhar, host of Voices In My Head gets inside the head of Captain. Rupinder Kaur - an ex army officer and now a naturopath. 

Capt. Rupinder Kaur grew in up in small town India, in places like Pithoragarh and Wellington, before Dr Manmohan Singh opened the country up to Coca Cola and Clinique shampoo. She is a product of the 1980s, but that’s not the only thing that shaped her. Her parents, both in the army, also did. Her mother was a doctor and her father rose to be a general.

She herself finished college in St Bede’s, Simla, and then came to Delhi to do a post grad degree in psychology. She never finished it, and wonders what life would have been like if she had. Instead, she headed to Allahabad to sit for the SSB, where candidates applying to join the army as officers gradually get weeded out over the course of a week.

The sixteenth batch of women officers, she won the gold medal for the best lady cadet, and went on to join the Army Ordnance Corps that to a layperson is all about weapons and ammunition. Rocket launchers interested her the most! Her first posting was in an ammunition depot near Ludhiana, where she was the security officer responsible for everything from rifles to Bofors shells.

After six years, she left (in those days women didn’t have permanent commission and she didn’t see a future here), and joined the corporate world, working across companies like Google and Microsoft.

Quickly she realised the corporate life was not for her, and she went to the UK to do a masters degree in Poverty Reduction. Her longest career stint has been in the social sector, with organizations like STiR, UnLtd, and J-Pal, a set up founded by Nobel laureates Abhijeet Banerjee and Ester Duflo.

From early in life, so-called alternate systems of healing was something her father dabbled in, taking her to naturopathy centres as early as 1 and half years old!

In her  early 40s, she realised she needed to revisit naturopathy to develop a deeper connection with her own body. In fact connection is something she talks about frequently, whether with oneself, the community, or with Nature. 
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The discussion on this episode of the podcast is all about naturopathy and things that Rupinder has experienced as an ex army officer. 

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