Indian classical dance bonds three generations in this Malaysian family


Young dancer Rohini Shetty will be presenting her debut solo dance show ‘Sadhana - The Grace Through Kathak’ at the Temple of Fine Arts in Kuala Lumpur on Oct 13 and 14. Photo: The Star/Raja Faisal Hishan

Umesh Shetty, director of the Temple of Fine Arts (TFA), ponders on what his father Gopal Shetty would have said about Rohini Shetty’s upcoming dance performance, Sadhana – The Grace Through Kathak in Kuala Lumpur this month.

Rohini, Gopal’s granddaughter and Umesh’s eldest child, recently graduated with an arts (dance) degree from Australia and will soon make her debut solo performance, fittingly on Malaysian soil.

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