What made foreign students come to Bharata Kalanjali to learn dance?
In those days, Kalakshetra offered only short-term training courses to foreign students. It was convenient for those students to further their training with Bharata Kalanjali, which followed the same Kalakshetra training. One such student was Katherine (Kunhiraman), who stayed with us as a paying guest. Katherines was Bharata Kalanjalis first arangetram. It was also the arangetram of our first overseas student followed by Chitty Lakshmis. More foreign students followed Katherine and the added revenue was not only helpful, it helped us to better the facilities by taking a bigger cottage and the thatched roof now covered a bigger space. It was very convenient to hold classes and rehearsals. On completing their dance training, Katherine as well as another American student Sheila were sponsored by the USIS to perform at venues in India under their banner. As their gurus, we accompanied them and the experience of working in such professional setups helped us pattern our mode of work on prof
