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| Mallika performed to Krishna Nee Begane Baro, while other students stood around the body depicting dance mudras. Twitter pic - Video below |
January 23, 2016, NewsCrunch
Celebrated danseuse Mrinalini Sarabhai received an unusual but fitting farewell from her daughter Mallika on Friday.
Mallika performed a mournful dance as a farewell gesture to her mother and guru, who had made a colossal contribution to promote classical Indian dance worldwide.
Mrinalini passed away on Thursday at 97 due to age-related complications in Ahmedabad.
Her body, draped in a red saree and with ghungroo on her feet, was placed on the dance floor of the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, which she had founded in 1949.
Mrinalini mprtal remains were later consigned to flames at a farmhouse in Pethapur area of Gandhinagar.
Popularly known as Amma, Mrinalini, a Padma Bhushan awardee, was the wife of Indian scientist the late Vikram Sarabhai,