Male students in mohiniyattam soon as Kalamandalam goes gender neutral
The Morning Standard|March 28, 2024
A meeting of Kerala Kalamandalam’s administrative board on Wednesday decided to make all its courses on performing arts gender-neutral, a move that will now make male students eligible for admission to courses hitherto reserved exclusively for girls, including mohiniyattam and nangiarkoothu.
MANOJ VISWANATHAN 

The decision was taken amid the controversy created by dancer Kalamandalam Satyabhama, who had made racist remarks against dancer R L V Ramakrishnan, brother of late actor Kalabhavan Mani, and criticised the practice of men performing mohiniyattam. 

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