For the love of kathakali

Thiruvananthapuram | Friday | 21st June, 2019

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By Express News ServiceTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Surya S Nair and Chandra S Nair, siblings born and raised in Delhi, say they always had an identity crisis and it was kathakali that brought them close to their motherland. The artist sisters were in the city to perform ‘Kalyanasougandhikam’ kathakali at Vyloppilli Samskriti Bhavan the other day. Everything changed once we started taking kathakali lessons. It taught me patience.” On the challenges she faced, Surya says kathakali is amale-dominated art. “We were appreciated by the people for learning kathakali though we were not the residents of Kerala..