Current News: A signature campaign led by Anita Ratnam to reinstate Leela Samson is moving furiously and over 1000 dancers have cast their support. We need more to join , its not about ourselves or any person, Please think beyond all this and raise your hands to get this dynamic lady to come back to the Institution. Each one of us must spread the word for support through face book , twitter, blogs etc.
Lets do it!
Usha Rk
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I was shocked, surprised and felt rather disgusted in phases when I saw the tweet from Anita Ratnam saying Leela Samson quits Kalakshetra. We have so often known of Institutions that were started by stalwarts with passion and then after that personality was not there the running of the institution its priorities etc changed and the institution never regained its lost glory. The one example in my life time of an institution that saw various ups and downs and then the reins came in to the hands of an able administrator, a knowledgeable dancer and performer, a cultural ambassador and a disciplinarian all rolled in to one is Leela Samson at Kalakshetra. The grand institution grew in leaps and bounds, turned a new leaf, flowered and shone like bright stars.
And today, we hear the extremely disturbing news that she quits Kalakshetra.
I am passionate about DANCE and Institutions of DANCE. I am worried and pray that the Ministry of Culture does not succumb to some irrelevant political appointment. I hope they find an appropriate person who certainly has learned dance understands the challenges of the medium, the route of its growth, the strings that need to be pulled at times of need and has all the abilities mentioned above and the world at Kalakshetra continues to remain the same!!!
Usha Rk
The world within..........&........out 