Binapani Mohanty
1936–2022writer
dancer and choreographer (1912–2003)
1912–2003, born Bengaluru, autobiographer
Bissano Ram Gopal OBE was an Indian dancer and choreographer who performed mostly as a soloist and toured extensively throughout his lengthy career. A modernist, he blended classical Indian dance styles, folk dance and balletic choreography, and along with Uday Shankar was among the first to showcase Indian classical dance in the West starting in the 1930s, Polish critic Tadeusz Zelenski called him “the Nijinsky of India”.
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1936–2022writer
1906–2001English-language writer (1906–2001)
1872–1947Writer Novelist, historian, philosophical and political person
1919–2005novelist, poet, and essayist (in Hindi and Punjabi languages) (1919–2005)
1886–1957Aclaimed author, professor, social reform activist, social worker, sociologist, autobiographer, Publisher
1893–1963Buddhist scholar, polyglot and travel writer (1893–1963); 'Father of Hindi travel literature'