Ranga Bedi (Kabir Bedi’s brother) wiki, age, wife, daughters
| Biography | |
|---|---|
| Name | Ranga Bedi |
| Full Name | Ranga Trilochan Bedi |
| Profession | Indian entrepreneur |
| Famous for | Being Kabir Bedi‘s brother |
| Date of Birth | May 13, 1934 |
| Age (In 2024) | 90 Years 7 Month(s) 8 Days |
| Birth Place | Berlin, Germany |
| Current City | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Religion | Sikhism |
| Ethnicity | Mixed |
| Caste | Khatri |
| Mother Tongue | Punjabi |
| Zodiac | Taurus |
| Height | in centimeters- 188 cm in meters- 1.88 m in feet inches- 6ft 2in |
| Eye Color | Black |
| Hair Color | Black |
| Family and Marriage Details | |
| Marital Status | Widower |
| Wife | Umi Bedi |
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| Marriage date | November 18, 1958 |
| Children | |
| Daughter(s) | Seher Bedi Amarantha Noor Mehera Sohni Tanna |
| Parents | |
| Father | Baba Pyare Lal Singh Bedi |
| Mother | Freda Bedi |
| Sibling(s) | |
| Brother(s) | Kabir Bedi (actor) |
| Sister(s) | Gulhima Bedi |
| Cousin(s) | Late Satish Kuldip Bedi |
| Other Relative(s) | |
| Nephew(s) | Adam Bedi Siddharth Bedi Shiv Maira |
| Niece(s) | Pooja Bedi Brinda Maira Aadya Bedi Tarini Bedi Kalpana Mehra Ragini Kapur Dunn |
| Uncle(s) | Trilochan Das Bedi Dewan Virendranath (theatre actor) |
| Granddaughter(s) | Daria Bedi Diah Mehera Vedika Mehera Tia Tanna |
| Son-in-law(s) | Sanjeev Mehera Dipak Tanna |
| Daughter-in-law(s) | Tina Bedi |
| Sister-in-law(s) | Parveen Dusanj |
| Brother-in-law(s) | Shakti Maira (painter) Sam Scales |
| Education Details | |
| School | Tyndale Biscoe School, Srinagar |
| College | St. Stephen’s College, Delhi |
| Educational Qualification | College Dropout |
| Other Details | |
| Alternate Names | R.T Bedi |
Family Picture | |
Ranga Bedi is an Indian entrepreneur, best known as the elder brother of actor Kabir Bedi. He was born on 13 May 1934 to Baba Pyare Lal Singh Bedi and his wife, Freda Houlston, in Berlin, Germany. Ranga also has a younger sister named Gulhima Bedi. 1 | |
| His parents named him Ranga Trilochan Bedi in honor of journalist Rangaswamy Iyengar, former editor of The Hindu, who supported interracial marriages like theirs. 2 | |
| He also had a younger brother named Tilak Bedi, who passed away when he was less than a year old. | |
| His mother, Freda Bedi, played an active role in India’s freedom movement, becoming notably the first British woman to endure a six-month internment in Lahore jail in 1943. In the 1960s, she dedicated herself to working with Tibetan refugees in Kashmir. Eventually, she embraced Buddhism and adopted the name Sister Palmo, or Gelongma Karma Kechog Palmo. Freda Bedi is recognized as the first European woman to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun. She passed away in 1977. | |
| He is a 16th-generation descendant of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism. 3 | |
| Ranga completed his schooling at the Tyndale Biscoe School in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. He then pursued his graduation at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, but dropped out after two years to join Escorts Farm Mechanisation. 4 5 | |
| He commenced his career as a tea-planter in 1956 at Borhat Tea Estate in Naharkatia town of Assam. In 1980, he established Bedi and Bedi Private Limited in Bengaluru, specializing in the production of innovative tea manufacturing machines. 5 | |
Ranga Bedi married Umi Bedi on 18 November 1958. The couple has 3 daughters, Seher Bedi, Amarantha Noor Mehera, and Sohni Tanna. 6 | |
| He took over a hat-making factory in Italy in 2008 and became India’s one and only milliner. 7 | |
| In 2010, Random House India published “Rhymes for Ranga,” a collection of nursery rhymes that his mother, Freda Bedi, wrote for him during his childhood in the 1930s and 1940s. 8 | |
| In February 2024, the Karnataka High Court rejected Ranga Bedi’s plea to temporarily restrain Kabir Bedi and the publishing house Westland Publications from selling Kabir Bedi’s autobiography titled “Stories I Must Tell: The Emotional Life of an Actor”. This plea was challenging an order from the trial court. 3 | |
References
- https://www.scribd.com/document/673063482/OceanofPDF-com-Stories-I-Must-TellThe-Emotional-Life-of-an-Actor-Kabir-Bedi[↩]
- https://indianjournalismreview.com/2019/03/23/how-a-newspaper-editor-inspired-a-spunky-english-mom-to-name-her-first-son-ranga-the-amazing-life-and-times-of-possibly-indias-first-woman-columnist-freda-bedi/[↩]
- https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/freda-baba-and-my-roots-264004[↩][↩]
- https://www.andrewwhitehead.net/blog/a-week-or-two-with-the-bedis[↩]
- https://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=735646[↩][↩]
- https://www.instagram.com/p/BqTj9_-Ff_H/[↩]
- https://www.newindianexpress.com/magazine/2013/sep/29/maker-and-wearer-of-multiple-hats-519439.html[↩]
- https://www.amazon.in/Rhymes-Ranga-Freda-Bedi/dp/8184000367[↩]
