Timepass: The Memoirs of Protima Bedi

l got to meet Protima when l was in Bombay & she was a gorgeous person in every waythen l heard of her untimely death & as l would never get to meet her again to learn moreabout her l found this book.I have enjoyed reading this & am more sorry l did not know hermore.

Indian model Protima Bedi, almost a legend in her own time, never got to finish her autobiography -she died in 1998- but there is enough in this book to know her quite well through her journals, letters, thoughts. These were published posthumously by her daughter Pooja.A flamboyant and passionate personality, living life on her own terms, by most standards Protima might be perceived as controversial and unconventional too. As her daughter Pooja points out, Timepass is certainly a `...brutally honest book... It is just her being her'. So Protima may not come out unscathed, so to speak, by her own words, but it is also true that I myself, as a reader, perceived an extraordinary devotedness, an unconditional giving to the ones, or to the causes, she truly loved.It is hard to summarize her story omitting some salient points, but that would spoil the reading, so I'll just leave it at that (and at the book description above). Let it suffice to say that the twists & turns that often come along when one leads a glamorous life, not only brought her gaiety and popularity. She definitely had her share of deep, abysmal grief.One way or the other, she left a mark in her country and in the heart of those she loved and was loved by, not to mention in the legacy of the dancing village she founded, Nrityagram.This book held my attention from start to finish, an interesting voyage into some aspects of the Indian culture but above all an open acknowledgment of a life lived to the full.

I think I expected a little more about Protima Bedi's childhood in the book as thats where all the behavioural changes must have taken place. Apart from that a good read and well written book.