CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Mallika Sarabhai is a dancer, actor and activist. As one of India’s leading choreographers and dancers, she has been co-director of the Darpana Academy for Performing Arts for nearly forty years.

Detailed explanation-2: -From her obsession of 30 years with ‘being thin’ to her battles with grief and depression, acclaimed classical dancer and activist Mallika Sarabhai bares it all in her upcoming self-help memoir, “Free Fall: My Experiments with Living”.

Detailed explanation-3: -Free Fall is the fourth novel of English novelist William Golding, first published in 1959.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sarabhai was a leading exponent of the bharata natyam and kuchipudi dance forms. In 1977 she took over the leadership of the Ahmadabad-based performing arts academy Darpana, which her mother had established decades earlier, and led its dance troupe in festivals around the world.