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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Ananda Shankar Jayant

Ananda Shankar Jayant is an Indian classical dancer, choreographer, scholar and bureaucrat, known for her proficiency in the classical dance forms of Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi. She is the first woman officer in the Indian Railway Traffic Service on South Central Railway and her 2009 TED talk is ranked among the top twelve Incredible TED talks on cancer. She is a recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Kalaimamani Award of the Government of Tamil Nadu and Kala Ratna Award of the Government of Andhra Pradesh. The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2007, for her contributions to arts.

Born: September 27, 1961
How do you keep cheer when you go from beautiful to bald in three days? — © Ananda Shankar Jayant
How do you keep cheer when you go from beautiful to bald in three days?
I danced through chemo and radiation cycles.
Cancer's only one page in my life, and I will not allow this page to impact the rest of my life.
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