With 15 pounds of bells on his ankles and sweat in his silver hair, Birju Maharaj ... come from nature," Maharaj, the undisputed living master of Indian Kathak dance, explained by phone from ...

Mr. Maharaj choreographed for Bollywood, but was chiefly known for carrying the torch of Kathak, one of India’s major dance traditions. By Alastair Macaulay Birju Maharaj, who was revered in ...

Indian classical dancer Pandit Birju Maharaj died of a heart attack at the age of 83. According to reports, the Kathak maestro was playing with his grandsons on Sunday (16 January) at his home in ...

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He popularised the Lucknow gharana of Kathak dance form around the world. ... His passing away is a monumental loss to the world of performing arts." Birju Maharaj was the son of the exponent of ...

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He died before reaching the hospital," Birju Maharaj's granddaughter Ragini, a Kathak dancer herself, was quoted as saying by news agency PTI. "Two of his disciples and his two granddaughters ...

Pandit Birju Maharaj, apart from being a renowned Kathak Dancer, was also a well-known classical singer and had lent his voice to various films. Birju Maharaj was also honoured by the Government ...

Legendary Kathak dancer Brijmohan Mishra, popularly known as Pandit Birju Maharaj passes away at his home in Delhi. He was an exponent of the Lucknow Kalka-Bindadin Gharana of Kathak dance in India.

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Legendary Kathak dancer Birju Maharaj died at his home here in the early hours of January 17, his granddaughter said. He would have been 84 next month. Maharaj-ji, as he was popularly known ...

FILE - Indian classical Kathak dance guru Birju Maharaj teaches students at his studio in New Delhi on Sept. 26, 1997. Birju Maharaj, a legend of classical Indian dance and among the countrys most ...