In passing away of Guru Mayadhar Raut, often attributed as one of "the fathers of Odissi naatya," the nation lost yet another legend. This is my humble tribute to a colleague whom I knew from the day he joined Kalakshetra in 1955. While teaching at the Kala Vikas Kendra (an organization engaged in professional training for several arts) in Cuttack as the first teacher of Odissi, he won a scholarship in 1955 from the Orissa branch of Sangeet Natak Akademi (India's national academy of music, dance, and drama) to pursue training in Bharatanaatyam and Kathakali at the Kalakshetra Foundation, Adyar in Madras (now Chennai). We stayed in the Kalakshetra hostel which gave us the greater advantage of learning and practicing the arts in a Gurukulam type of atmosphere.Read more in the site
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