Protima Gauri Bedi (October 12, 1948 – August 18, 1998) was an Indian model turned Odissi exponent. To her dance was a way of life. In 1990, she established 'Nrityagram', a dance village near Bangalore.

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• 'Indian', [mom said], you will write Indian. And if they have a problem with that let them come and talk to me. They have no business asking you your religion. How is that the basis for an educational qualification?
  • Reply to her daughter Pooja Bedi who was filling a form in the school in Bedi; Ibrahim; Pooja (April 2003). Timepass. Penguin Books India. p. vii. ISBN 978-0-14-028880-3.

• The world isn’t just what you see outside your window. It’s so much larger, so much grander. We are just microscopic specks in the whole big scheme of things in this universe! How bogged down we get by rules, by what society wants and what people say, when in fact it’s all just timepass. Enjoy the moment, even the grief. Celebrate the joy of being alive. It’s so very very easy to be happy.
  • In 'Timepass' p.x

• This is my life. No one has the right to tell me how to live it or to question what I do. When you grow up, you will make your own choices. It will be your life and you it your way. I will never interfere. It must be awful for these people to have such boring lives that all they can do make them interesting is to talk about somebody else’s life. I am glad I provided with them with timepass conversation.
  • In reply to her daughter when she had streaked and her daughter who was five years old was upset knowing about to in the school when she was told that her mother :’All the children in my school say that their mummies said that you ran nanga’ (‘nanga’ in Hindi means “naked”) in 'Timepass' pp. viii-ix

• 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.
  • On her steaking and the Nritygarma, the dance institute she established in Bangalore quoted in 'I have been a hippie all my life'. Rediff.com. 22 August 1998. Retrieved on 14 january 2014.

• Every woman I knew secretly longed to have many lovers but she stopped herself for so many reasons. I had the capacity to love many at a time and for this had been called shallow and wayward and a good-time girl...
  • She wrote in 'Timepass: The Memoir of Protima Bedi' quoted in 'She had a lust for life'. The Tribune. 5 February 2000.

• To my analytical mind this relationship of marriage was a very forced one between two people. I understood that for the security and upbringing of the child the parents need to be monogamous. Because then the child will have a secure home. But both people should understand and accept the fact that there would always be temptation. That's not bad in itself because what is temptation?
  • In 'I have been a hippie all my life'

• Human nature being what it is, or at least conditioning being what it is I was so insecure. I always had to watch out for other women. She leans forward and laughs 'Because he was so damned good looking, you know. When you are not the wife it's great but when you are...'
  • On her marital relationship with Kabir Bedi which did not work out, quoted in 'I have been a hippie all my life'.

• When I saw Odissi it could have been Kuchipudi or Thai for all I cared. No one knew Odissi then. I S Johar once introduced my performance saying 'Now for Protima Bedi's Udipi performance.' But when I saw it I knew that is what I wanted to do -- whatever it was. There was something so sensuously spiritual about it. I think I must have wanted that so much in my life.
  • On her first experience and fascination for Odissi dance quoted in 'I have been a hippie all my life'.

• My guru said you are too old. I thought I was young -- I was 26. And he said you can't and I said I can. I'll show you. He said it will take many sacrifices. And I said I'll give up anything you want. I didn't realise I would have to give up my family for that. I realise now if I had not gone for three months to Orissa my husband would not have run off with Parveen Babi. So it was really a giving up. My children had to go to boarding school after that -- there was no family. I had to give up my lifestyle, my friends, my smoking, my drinking.
  • On her taking up Odissi dance in Orissa and the resultant separation from her husband, quoted in 'I have been a hippie all my life'.

• Firstly I had never touched anyone's feet. So I refused to do that for months. I had never been inside a temple. I refused to go for puja every evening. I said I have only come to learn dance. I don't have to do all that. But the dance brought the devotion and the spiritual understanding. I saw my guru's devotion because everything he did was by example. If I have built Nrityagram today it is because of what I took from him.
  • On her learning stages of the Odissi dance, quoted in 'I have been a hippie all my life'.

• This great man, Guru Kelucharan Mahapatra, a Padmashri and Padma Bhushan, would clean the gutter outside his house. He used to beat me. One slap from my dad and I had left the house. And my guru slapped me a couple of times because I was arrogant. I would be so angry I would pack my bags. But I knew I was there because I wanted to be there not because he wanted me to be there. And when I touched his feet it was not by rote. When I touched his feet he and I both cried because he had waited long enough for me to come to that.
  • About her Guru quoted in 'I have been a hippie all my life'.

• I felt I had nothing more to learn. It was the same thing wrapped up in different packaging again and again. I am not a brilliant dancer at all. But my packaging is great. You know, I have been a hippie all my life. And the dreams of the sixties that I had of living in a commune, of sharing, of never having more than I can use, of living life joyfully in nature -- that was the spirit that was inside me. And in the isolation of being a dancer I thought where is the giving, where is the sharing, with me sitting so far in a cold place? I knew I had to get back and I had to share what life had given me through dance. I was willing to give up my dance and work and beg to realise this dream. Because it would still be my dream, it would still be dance but how much joy it would give so many bodies.
  • After learning Odissi dance, she toured all over the world performing Odissi dance and then settled in Switzerland but came back to establish a dance school. Quoted in in 'I have been a hippie all my life'.

• I dream of building a community of dancers in a forsaken place amidst nature. A place where nothing exists, except dance. A place where you breathe, eat, sleep, dream, talk, imagine - dance. A place where all the five senses can be refined to perfection. A place where dancers drop negative qualities such as jealousy, small-mindedness, greed and malice to embrace their colleagues as sisters and support each other in their journey towards becoming dancers of merit. A place called Nrityagram.
  • On her dance institution called Nityagram quoted in The Dream. Nritygarm Organization. Retrieved on 14 January 2014.

• But as soon as I opened a dance school they went who does she think she is? She has become a guru! In their mind they could not accept that anyone could build a place not because they want to be a guru but because they want to give the best to a young bunch of girls. Guru Kelucharan Mahapatra was in charge of Odissi. Kalanidhi Narayan for Abhinaya. Kumudini Lakhia for Kathak. Kalyani Kuttiyamma for Mohiniattam. The Paul Taylor Dance Company did a workshop there. I was not the guru. I was the slave. I was working with my hands -- planting trees, digging the earth, typing, collecting the money. I gave up my dance.
  • On Her Nityagrama dance school in Bangalore, quoted in 'I have been a hippie all my life'.

• It all came back to my guruji saying bahut kali-ka rup dekhaya tumne. (You have shown a lot of Kali in you). Calm down a little bit. Parvati-ka roop lo. (Take on the image of [[w:Parvati|Parvati).
  • When she chose the name while at Nityagram, quoted in 'I have been a hippie all my life'.

• My creativity is over. Now it is only the question of maintenance. I have empowered the girls to look after themselves. To earn their own money, to be somebody. I need to resuscitate.
  • When she retired from Nityagram, quoted in 'I have been a hippie all my life'.

• Just be the best and the highest expression of who you want to become. Be that. Because if you are that there is no more unhappiness. All frustration and anger comes from being less. People say not everybody can be. But everyone can be. I trust life. The only person who stands in your way is yourself.
  • Quoted in 'I have been a hippie all my life'.

• The time has come for me to forget my past and live a future that even I am unaware of.
  • When she left the Nitygram village quoted in 'Bowing Out'.

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• I couldn’t describe Protima Bedi better. As a mother she was phenomenal. She brought joy into our lives with her constant need to be different and creative. She was determined never to lead an ordinary life.
  • By her daughter Pooja Bedi in 'Timepass' p. vii

• Two words that were missing in her life’s lexicon were 'no' and 'regret'; she could not say no to any man who desired her — and grew into a very desirable and highly animated young woman who most men found irresistible. And she did not regret any emotional or physical experience she had.
  • By Khushwant Mubarak Singh quoted in 'She had a lust for life'

• She abandoned her dance school and other business to become a sanyasin, but death took her unawares: she was killed in a landslide while on a pilgrimage to Kailash-Mansarovar. Oddly enough even as a sanyasin she was accompanied by one of her lovers.
  • By Khushwant Mubarak Singh quoted in 'She had a lust for life'

• Protima Gauri (as she renamed herself) had zest for living. She loved her men, her liquor and drugs. She had a large range of her lovers, most of whom she names.
  • By Khushwant Mubarak Singh quoted in 'She had a lust for life'

• Now, the 48-year-old Odissi dancer -- clean-shaven, with tattooed eyebrows and clothed in the robes of a Buddhist monk (except the colour of the robe is blue and purple) -- wants to retreat to the Himalayas.
  • By Stephen David in Bowing Out. India Today. Retrieved on 14 January 2014.

• Dance has been like a man in her life. It has given her name, fame and credibility. She can't do without it. She is a star in her own right. I'm sure she can revive herself and get back into the limelight.
  • Prasad Bidapa in 'Bowing Out'.

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Protima Bedi

Protima Gauri Bedi^[2][3] (October 12, 1948 – August 18, 1998)^[4] was an Indian model turned odissi exponent. In 1990, she established 'Nrityagram', a dance village near Bangalore.

• Early life1
• Career2
  • Modeling career2.1
  • Dance career2.2
  • Nrityagram2.3
  • Final years2.4
• Personal life3
• See also4
• Notes5
• References6
• External links7

Early life

Protima was born in Delhi,^[5] the second of the four siblings, three daughters and a son. Her father Laxmichand Gupta, a trader belonging to a Bania family from Karnal district, Haryana, and her mother Reba, a Bengali. Her father had to leave home, because of opposition to his marriage,^[1] Thereafter, he started working in Delhi.

Protima Bedi's Son Siddharth Bedi

In 1953, her family moved to Goa, and in 1957 to Bombay. At age nine, she was sent to stay at her aunt's, in a village in Karnal district for a while, where she studied in a local school. On her return, she was sent to Kimmins High School, Panchgani, where she received her early education. She graduated from St. Xavier's College, Bombay (1965–67).^[5]

Career

Modeling career

By the late 1960s, she was a prominent model. In 1974, she came into the news for streaking during the daytime for the launch of the Bollywood magazine, Cineblitz at Juhu Beach in Bombay.^[6]

Dance career

In August 1975, at the age of 26, an Odissi dance recital ^[7] completely changed her life when she ran into the Bhulabhai Memorial Institute by chance, and saw two young dancers giving an Odissi performance. It filled her with a kind of passion she'd never known before, in spite of its extremely complex rhythms, patterns and sophisticated hand-and-eye gestures. She became a student of Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra from whom she learnt the art of dancing for 12 to 14 hours a day and faced a lot of hardship as a beginner. She transformed herself from being the tight trouser, halter neck, off-shoulder girl with gold streaked hair to Protima Gauri, later as Gauri Amma or Gauri Maa, as she was affectionately known amongst her students.^[8]

To her dance was a way of life. She proved to be an excellent learner. To perfect her dance, she started studying abhinaya from Guru Kalanidhi Narayan of Madras. From then on, she started giving performances all over the country. Around the same time, Protima started her own dance school at Prithvi Theatre in Juhu, Mumbai. It later became the Odissi Dance Centre. After her separation from Kabir Bedi in 1978, she was looking for an anchor and she found it in her dance.

Nrityagram

Nrityagram, situated on the outskirts of Bangalore, became India's first free dance gurukul,^[9] village for various Indian classical dances, consisting of seven gurukuls for the seven classical dance styles and two martial arts forms, Chhau and Kalaripayattu.^[10] She wanted to revive the guru-shishya parampara in the right kind of environment. Nrityagram was inaugurated on 11 May 1990, by the then Prime Minister, V.P. Singh. The dance school has a small community of students from all parts of India, but with a common aim - dance. The Nrityagram ensemble was soon performing all over the world.^[11] Meanwhile in 1992, she appeared in Pamela Rooks's English film, Miss Beatty's Children .^[12]

Nrityagram, created as a model dance village, was constructed by master architect, Gerard da Cunha. It had even won the Best Rural Architecture' award in 1991. To raise funds to run Nrityagram, a tourist resort Kuteeram was built in 1992. Nrityagram is also the venue of the annual dance festival Vasanta Habba, which was first started in 1994 and had 40,000 visitors when it was last held in 2004. It has not been held from 2005–2007, due to the advent of the 2004 tsunami and a shortage of funds.^[13]

Protima Bedi Streaking

Final years

Protima's son Siddarth who was suffering from schizophrenia, committed suicide in July 1997, while he was studying in North Carolina,^[14] this changed the course of her life irrevocably, as in early 1998, she announced her retirement and changed her name to Protima Gauri,^[1] soon she started travelling in the Himalayan region, starting with Leh.^[15] In a newspaper interview given in April, 1997, camping at Rishikesh during the Kumbh Mela, she said, 'I have decided to give myself up to the Himalayas. It is the call of the mountains which has beckoned me to them. And who knows what may come out of it? It is bound to be something good,' ^[16] Subsequently, in August, Protima Gauri set off on her pilgrimage to Kailash Mansarovar and it was there that she disappeared after the Malpa landslide, near Pithoragarh,^[17] in the Himalayas, leaving behind her most lasting achievement — a flourishing dance village, Nrityagram, where students continue to learn the classical dance styles of India. Her remains and belongings were later recovered after several days along with seven other bodies as remains of a landslide in Malpa, a village along the Indo-Tibet border.

In her autobiography, Timepass, based on her journals and letters, collated and published by her daughter, Pooja Bedi in 2000, she gives a candid account of all her relationships, her rebellious lifestyle, her family life, the birth of her dream project, Nrityagram, and her eventual transition into a sanyasin, towards the end of her life, when she retired from public life and wanted to explore the Himalayas.^[18]

Personal life

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Protima Bedi, during her modelling days, met Kabir Bedi. And after a few months, she walked out of her parents' house to live with him. It was another indication of her expression of individuality, which continued throughout her life. She married Kabir in 1969 and had two children - Pooja Bedi and Siddharth Bedi.

See also

Notes

1. ^ ^abcThis Above All - She had a lust for life The Tribune, February 5, 2000.
2. ^Obituary India Today, September 7, 1998.
3. ^Protima Gauri Bedi nrityagram.org.
4. ^Dream Nrityagram.
5. ^ ^abcTime Pass: The Memoirs of Protima Bedi, Introduction, pp. 1–2. Biographical info: 'Early Years'
6. ^Protima's interview on naked run Hindustan Times.
7. ^Protima Guari Interview Rediff.com, August 22, 1998.
8. ^Bina Ramani Mourns... Indian Express, September 22, 1998.
9. ^Nityagram profile indoindians.com.
10. ^Odissi Kala Kendra Contemporaries in Odissi.
11. ^Dance in Review New York Times, June 22, 1996.
12. ^Protima Bedi at the Internet Movie Database
13. ^'Waiting for spring'. The Hindu. Mar 5, 2007.
14. ^Interview Kabir Bedi Filmfare October, 2001.
15. ^Bowing Out India Today, April 27, 1998.
16. ^Dutt, Nirupama (August 20, 1998). 'Will a pilgrim's tale remain untold?'. Indian Express.
17. ^Obituary New York Times, August 30, 1998.
18. ^To Family and friends Hindustan Times.

References

• Time Pass: The Memoirs of Protima Bedi, with Pooja Bedi Ebrahim. New Delhi, Penguin, 2000. ISBN 0-14-028880-5.

External links

• Protima Bedi at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website of Nrityagram
• An Interview with Protima Gauri
• Special feature on Protima Bedi

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