Daily Current Affairs Article 30th December 2020: Padma Shri dance historian and critic Sunil Kothari passed away at a Delhi hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest at the age of 87 years.
Sunil Kothari (1933 – 2020) was a noted Indian dance historian, scholar and critic.
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He was instrumental in establishing the School of Arts and Aesthetics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and mentored many art scholars.
He has written 12 books on different forms of Indian classical dance and allied art-forms.
He wrote extensively on Bharatanatyam, Kathak and Manipuri dance forms.
His scholarly work, Sattriya: Classical Dance of Assam, helped in creating a better understanding of the dance form in the national and global circuit.
His other notable contributions include New Directions in Indian Dance and Kuchipudi Indian Classical Dance Art.
Awards:
He received Padma Shri award in 2001. He also received Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1995 for overall contribution to the Indian classical dance.
He was awarded a D.Litt. by the Rabindra Bharti University for his research on dance sculptures in the medieval temples of north Gujarat.
