“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"

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Indian model and dancer 1948–1998

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