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The Rediff Interview/ Protima Bedi
'I have been a hippie all my life'
Protima Bedi is feared to be among the 202 people who perished in Tuesday's tragic landslide in Uttar Pradesh. Sandip Roy-Chowdhury spoke to the hell-raiser-turned-Odissi icon recently. A fascinating glimpse into the life and times of a truly astonishing woman.
rotima Gauri Bedi is a grandmother now. But people still ask her about streaking on Juhu Beach in Bombay nearly 30 years ago. The celebrated Odissi dancer and founder of Bangalore's Nrityagram dance institute laughs, "Everybody wants to know about it. Even now. But look at what else I have accomplished since then which must have taken courage. Far more than what it took to streak. But because it's more immediate you think you could even do this. But you can't build a dance institute out of barren land."
Protima Gauri made it a habit of doing the unexpected. Nobody, least of all Bedi herself, ever thought she would immerse herself in classical dance. After all this was the bikini-clad go-go girl who had opened Hideout, Bombay's first disco. But one day on her way to a rock concert she wandered into the wrong theatre and encountered Odissi. She recalls "When I saw Odissi it could have been Kuchipudi or Thai for all I cared. No one knew Odi
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Book Study : timepass (the memoirs of Protima Bedi)
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Another friend, another never-imagined end, another eerie reminder
Last week I wrote about finding a note from my dear Delhi friend Sabina exactly 16 years after she was killed in the 2008 Taj attack; worse, it bore the same date as that of my son’s wedding reception which had brought her to Mumbai – and brutal death. That unnerving note had also stirred up numbing déjà vu. In 1998, the haunting voice of another unputdownable woman had returned from a death as terrifying as Sabina’s.
Protima Bedi was the original Brat. In 1975, she had ‘streaked’ across Juhu beach to the shock and awe of notoriously bindaas Bombay. Equally gob-smacking was her career switch, from celeb model to celeb disciple of Odissi revivalist, Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra.
We became good friends in the mid-1990s when, reborn as Protima Gauri/‘Gaurima’, she’d set up Nrityagram, a free, dance village on the outskirts of Bangalore; I was TOI consulting editor there. The sassy sannyasin was now shaven headed like ex-saas, Freda Bedi, first Western woman ordained as Tibetan Buddhist monk. Umbrella-shaded, she would emerge from her ‘hut’ in flowing earth-hued kaftan, preceded by a Swiss mountain dog on whom she’d bestowed local pedigree: ‘my Hessaraghatta hound’.
Then in 1998, she renounced it