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Odissi dancer Daksha Mashruwala grew up in Ahmedabad and learned Bharatnatyam from Guru Mrinalini Sarabhai’s Darpana, post-marriage when Daksha came to Mumbai way back in the sixties she could not find an alternate school to pursue her passion for dance. Some years later her husband shifted job and they were now based in Juhu. That was the time Nalanda was just coming up and Kanak rele advised Daksha to learn Odissi. Now she was on the lookout for another guru and found one in Guru Kelucharan Mahapatra.

Difficult as it was she left her husband and children with her inlaws and went to learn Odissi from her new guru in Bhubaneshwar where she stayed with him in the true guru-shishya parampara in their home for over a month and the process continued for many years. It is an interesting story and you can catch it on my podcast http://www.eplog.media/merikahani/2019/07/14/s2e1-diary-of-classical-dancers-ft-daksha-mashruwala-odissi-dancer/