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Protima Gauri Bedi [2] [3] (12 October 1948 – 18 August, 1998) [4] was an Indian model turned Odissi exponent. In 1990, she established Nrityagram, a dance school in Bangalore .
Aug 18, 1998 · Protima Bedi was an Indian model and a renowned Odissi dancer. Protima is known for being the founder of Nrityagram, a dance school situated in Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru. On 18 August 1998, she died in the Malpa landslide, near Pithoragarh, on her way to the Kailash-Mansarovar.
Protima Bedi (1948- 1998) was an Indian model and a renowned Odissi dancer. She was known for being the ex-wife of Kabir Bedi, an Indian actor. Protima is the founder of Nrityagram, a dance school situated in Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru. She died in the Malpa landslide, near Pithoragarh, on her way to the Kailash-Mansarovar on 18 August 1998.
Aug 18, 2020 · Protima Bedi — the model, dancer and ‘sanyasin’ who lived by her own rules. In her short life, Protima Bedi had a successful career, first as a model and then Odissi dancer. She refused to be put in a box, and made a name as a bold, feminist icon. I n her memoir, Timepass: The Memoirs of Protima Bedi, which was published posthumously by ...
Sep 7, 1998 · Protima Gauri Bedi (1949-1998) A legend through most of her life, Protima Gauri Bedi, 49, has again rocked the nation with her death in the Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrimage landslide tragedy. But those who came to know this remarkable woman with any degree of familiarity will agree that if she could have written a script for her own final exit ...
Mar 17, 2018 · Twenty years after Odissi exponent Protima Bedi’s demise, her vision and dream live on at Nrityagram, the dance village she set up in the 90s
Mar 1, 2018 · With her early life and education in Karnal and Panchgani, Protima graduated from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai. She started her modeling stint in the 1960s – and it was during this phase that she met the veteran actor, Kabir Bedi. They were in a live-in relationship which was considered an anathema back in those times.
Aug 18, 2018 · Its the 21st death anniversary of the legendary model turned Odissi dancer - Protima Bedi. On this occasion, the author explains what an exceptional feminist icon that she was.
Aug 30, 1998 · Protima Gauri Bedi, dancer and actress and founder of Nrityagram ensemble and school, which sought to preserve elements of Indian classical dance, died on Aug 19 at age 49; she was one of many ...
Protima Bedi. Born On: October 12, 1948. Born In: Delhi. Died On: August 18, 1998. Career: classical Dancer and Model. Nationality: Indian. Protima Bedi, best remembered as a classical Indian dancer, was equally popular as a ramp model of the 1970s fashion diasporas in India. In fact she was one of the most popular celebrity faces in the world ...
Apr 25, 2018 · Protima Bedi, Model turned Odissi dancer speaks about her experiences. She says, "I used to be a model and a very famous one then I was married to Kabir Bedi...
Mar 31, 1994 · The boogeying, partying Protima in the backless cholis and stiletto heels is an avatar long buried in the past when she and former husband Kabir Bedi had created a Bohemia in their Juhu abode for the beautiful people of the late '60s. "My mother has turned more inwards. She doesn't wear anything pretty any more.
Aug 21, 2020 · A virtual tribute to Protima Bedi by Nrityagram evokes memories of a person who had given her self and more to this unique entity
Oct 12, 2022 · Protima Bedi — ultimate enfant terrible, model, Odissi dancer, sanyasi. Every Bombayite of our generation had heard of Protima Gupta. She was the ultimate enfant terrible. People spoke in hushed whispers about her streaking through Samovar restaurant. For those who came in late streaking was big in the ’70s in the west.
Protima recounts with unflinching honesty the events that shaped her life: her humiliation as a child at being branded the ugly duckling, repeated rape by a cousin when she was barely ten, the failure of her ‘open’ marriage with Kabir Bedi, her many sexual encounters, and the romantic relationships she had with prominent politicians and ...
Around 35 kilometers from Bangalore was 10 acres of wild isolation, where Protima Gauri arrived in a caravan with some supplies and set-up a camp. Fascinated by her determination, Shankar and Arundhati Nag visited her, only to become lifelong friends. So did many others, who came, curious, drawn to this woman of infectious laughter and ...
Pooja Bedi shared a picture holding up book of her mother Protima and father Kabir Bedi. She also asked fans which of the two parents does she share resemblance with.
Nov 7, 2013 · Protima Bedi famously said these words after she streaked in daylight on Mumbai’s Juhu Beach. It was an event that changed the way India looked at women. As a fierce debate raged for years between the moral police and the ultra-feminists, Protima Bedi went on defying every societal norm that every Indian woman was conditioned to believe as ‘normal’.
Aug 8, 2017 · Protima Bedi’s legacy, Nrityagram, will soon dance to govt’s tunes. A new culture policy approved by the state cabinet on Monday is pushing for the takeover of Nrityagram, a traditional dance ...
Oct 13, 2023 · Protima Bedi was born to a baniya businessman and a Bengali mother as Protima Gupta in Delhi in 1949. Her father was a small-time trader, who was thrown out of his family for marrying a dark Bengali women. The theme of her early life was to rebel against traditional bondage. It was extraordinary how Protima underwent a metamorphosis from a conventional convent-educated girl into a freak. On October 12th was her 75th birthday; earlier this year, on August 18th it was her 25th death anniversary.
Protima Bedi was a great Indian dancer of odissi - one of the eight classical dance forms of India. During the years of hard work she established "Nrityagram" - India's first modern Gurukul (residential school) for Indian classical dances and an intentional community in the form of a dance village.
Jan 16, 2022 · Kabir Bedi's love life saw more ups and downs than his onscreen career. As the actor turns 76 today, we revisit how his four marriages left a lasting impact on his perception about romance.
Jan 16, 2024 · Protima once shared in an interview that she was the one who encouraged Kabir to have an affair with Parveen. Protima said,
