100th birth anniversary of Mrinalini Sarabhai
May 18 , 2018
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- Google commemorated the 100th birth anniversary of Mrinalini Sarabhai, a renowned Indian classical dancer, with a doodle.
- She was an expert on two south Indian dance forms of Bharatanatyam and Kathakali.
- She founded the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, choreographed over 300 dance dramas and wrote many novels, plays, and poems for children.
- Mrinalini was bestowed with several awards. She received the
- Padma Shri in 1965,
- Padma Bhushan in 1992,
- Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship in 1994 and
- Nishagandhi Puraskaram, an annual award of the Government of Kerala, in 2013.
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