About the video:
In this inspiring video short, Ananda Shankar shares her transformative journey of confronting breast cancer. By shifting her mindset from the overwhelming fear often associated with cancer to embracing a positive, empowering approach, Ananda redefined the “big C” as a “Choice.”
Instead of succumbing to the demands of cancer, she chose to focus on joy, happiness, and her passion for dance. Watch as Ananda reveals how she took control of her life and transformed her battle with cancer into a powerful statement of strength and resilience.
About Ananda Shankar:
Ananda inhabits the worlds of administration, academics, and arts, straddling them with equal ease. Celebrated as one of India’s most eminent classical dancer, choreographer and scholar. Ananda’s artistic body of work, spans mythologies and abstraction, historical chronicles, and women studies, poetry abstraction, philosophy and humour. Ananda was conferred the “Padma Shri” (India’s 4th highest civilian award) in 2007 and the Sangeet Kala Akademi Puraskar for Bharatanatyam in 2009.
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