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Gender no more a barrier for courses at Kalamandalam
The New Indian Express
|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 for girls, including mohiniyattam and nangiarkoothu.
The decision has been taken amid the controversy created by dancer Kalamandalam Satyabhama, who had made racist remarks against dancer RLV Ramakrishnan, brother of late actor Kalabhavan Mani, and criticised the practice of men per
This story is from the March 28, 2024 edition of The New Indian Express.
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