Pune- Forty Four Year old Odissi Danseuse of the rare Mahari tradition with multifarious skills and interests, Jayawanti Subroto Roy passed away on November five at a city hospital after a brief illness. She was fighting breast cancer for the last five years.
Jayawanti was deeply interested in and articulate about Marathi literature and was also a journalist and had written for Marathi newspapers and magazines such as daily Lokmat and monthly Maher from the city.
She was a favourite student of Rita Devi Mukherjee, the great grand daughter of Ravindranath Tagore and seniormost disciple of Guru Pankaj Charan Das of this rare tradition of Odissi dancing, earlier known as Oudra Magadhi nritya which was performed inside the sanctum sanctorum of the Jaggannath temple in the absence of any other viewer but the presiding deity.
She is survived by Prof. Dr. Subroto Roy, the Professor of Music, FLAME University.
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For details: Please contact 9075265041 Dr. Subroto Roy subrotor@gmail.com
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