Mother plays a key role in life: Kabir Bedi

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, April 25

Veteran actor Kabir Bedi, along with his wife Parveen Dusanj Bedi, was in the city to attend an event organised by FICCI Ladies Organisation on Wednesday.

The 72-year-old actor said empowerment of women was the only way for the progress of society. More power to women would make society progressive and strong, he said.

He further said there was great importance of mother’s guidance in a child’s life.

Speaking about his own mother, he said, “My mother Freida Bedi was a British woman. My father and mother, who were studying at Oxford, fell in love, and when my father said he would come to India and participate in the struggle movement for independence, she decided to join him . My mother said she was not against the Britishers, but she was against the concept of imperialism and colonialism.”

“When my mother came to India, she became a follower of Mahatma Gandhi and participated in the Satyagraha movement. She also had gone to jail several times because the Britishers could never imagine that a British woman would stand up against the British Raj. Later, she adopted Buddhism and started her first school of English language for Buddhism monks,” the veteran actor said.

Parveen Dusanj Bedi said due to circumstances, her mother in Britain had to leave comfort and luxury and begin her life from scratch. Parveen said her mother she brought up her children single-handedly and worked hard so that her children could education and achieve a mark in different fields.