Welcome to the first in a series of intimate first -person sharings from dancer daughters. These talented and determined women take time to acknowledge the contribution their mothers made in the shaping and making of their dance careers. As with all mothers, the supervision went much further than the dance studio and stage.

Meenakshi Chittaranjan, Bharatanatyam dancer and guru, inaugurates our monthly column on the women who birthed us who stood by us until the end... our mothers!
Enjoy and send us your comments.

Anita R Ratnam
Managing Editor

My mother Parvathi
- Deepa Shivananda, Bangalore
e-mail: deepa_july@yahoo.com


Amma Endru Azhaikaadha Uyir Illayae
- Sweta Ravisankar
e-mail: sweta.natyam@gmail.com


Demystifying Maya
- Madhu Nataraj, Bangalore
e-mail: stemdance@hotmail.com


My mother
- Ileana Citaristi, Bhubaneswar
e-mail: ileana5@hotmail.com


Aai: my dearest mother
- Jhelum Paranjape, Mumbai
e-mail: jhelum@smitalay.com


Remembering Indrani: September 19, 1930 - February 5, 1999
- Sukanya Rahman
email: artinsider@harpswelldesigns.com


Amma: My inspiration
- Roja Kannan, Chennai
e-mail: rojakannan6@gmail.com


Rukku: My mother
- Chitra Visweswaran, Chennai
e-mail: vichitra50@gmail.com


Eternal inspiration
- Vasumathi Badrinathan, Mumbai
e-mail: vasu@vasumathi.net
- Responses


God could not be everywhere so he created Mothers
- Meenakshi Chittaranjan, Chennai