Editing Kabir Bedi (section)

== Early life and education ==
Kabir Bedi was born in [[Lahore]] in the [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab Province]] of [[British India]] (now in [[Punjab, Pakistan]]) on 16 January 1946.<ref>{{cite news |title=Kabir Bedi Birthday 2024: Tracing the actor's international film journey |url=https://www.msn.com/en-in/entertainment/news/kabir-bedi-birthday-2024-tracing-the-actor-s-international-film-journey/ar-AA1n2T8C |access-date=5 February 2024 |work=MSN |date=16 January 2024}}</ref> His father, Baba Pyare Lal Singh Bedi, was a [[Punjabi Sikh]] author, philosopher and a direct descendent of [[Guru Nanak]].<ref name="Butalia">{{cite book |last1=Butalia |first1=Urvashi |title=Partition: The Long Shadow |date=24 February 2015 |publisher=Penguin UK |isbn=978-93-5118-949-7 |page=159 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0E3WBgAAQBAJ&dq=kabir+bedi+lahore&pg=PT159}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Kabir Bedi reveals he is a '17th generation descendant' of Guru Nanak as he commemorates his 550th birth anniversary |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/entertainment/hindi/kabir-bedi-reveals-he-is-a-17th-generation-descendant-of-guru-nanak-as-he-commemorates-his-550th-birth-anniversary/videoshow/72032599.cms |work=The Times of India |date=13 November 2019 |access-date=5 February 2024 |archive-date=5 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205120104/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/entertainment/hindi/kabir-bedi-reveals-he-is-a-17th-generation-descendant-of-guru-nanak-as-he-commemorates-his-550th-birth-anniversary/videoshow/72032599.cms |url-status=live }}</ref> His mother, [[Freda Bedi]], was an [[English people|English]] woman born in [[Derby]],<ref name="Butalia"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Whitehead |first1=Andrew |title=The Lives of Freda: The Political, Spiritual and Personal Journeys of Freda Bedi |date=10 February 2019 |publisher=Speaking Tiger Books |isbn=978-93-88874-08-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZuVRxAEACAAJ}}</ref> who became famous as the first Western woman to take ordination in Tibetan Buddhism.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mackenzie|first1=Vicki|title=The Revolutionary Life of Freda Bedi|date=2017|publisher=Shambhala Publications|location=Boulder, CO|isbn=9781611804256|pages=xii|edition=1st}}</ref> He was educated at [[Sherwood College]] in [[Nainital, Uttarakhand]], and [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi|St. Stephen's College]] in [[Delhi]].