Rasika Khanna

Rasika Khanna is a Visiting Fellow at the SASC. She is the daughter of Renu and Krishen Khanna, the artist, was initiated into the Bharatnatyam by the legendary Smt. Balasaraswathi in Chennai. Throughout her school and college days she trained under Smt Lalitha Shastri of Kalashetra, in Delhi and performed her Arangetram in 1971. She received the Government of India cultural scholarship to learn with Guru Adayar Lakshman in Chennai between 1973 and 1976. She later got senior research fellowship to study Kshetraiyya padam from Smt. Kalanidhi Narayanan. Rasika learnt the fine points of dramatic presentation from Guru Nana Kasar who taught her for 19 years.