Today we’d like to introduce you to Paramita Bhattacharyya.

Hi Paramita, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.

My interest in dance started at a young age when I first watched the ‘National Program of Dance’ on Doordarshan, the National Television channel in India. I noticed a form of dance very pleasing to the vision that involved a lot of spinning and beautiful sound of the ankle bell. I asked my parents to please let me learn this type of dance and find a teacher for me. Eventually, I found out this form of dance is known as ‘Kathak’. I only knew that I wanted to learn this magical dance movements but did not know that this will someday let me meet the Kathak legend Padma Vibhushan Pandit Birju Maharaj ji and learn from him and that it would lead me in the path to promote and educate Indian classical dance and culture abroad.