Legendary Bharatnatyam dancer, Mrinalini Sarabhai, has died from complications related to old age. She was 97. “My mother Mrinalini Sarabhai has just left for her eternal dance,” her daughter and noted classical dancer Mallika Sarabhai said in a Facebook post. Sarabhai was born in the southern Indian state of Kerala and was educated in Switzerland and Kolkata, where she began her training as a dancer. After training in dance, including a stint at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she returned to India and began her career as a dancer.

In 1948, Ms Sarabhai set up an institute of dance in Ahmadabad where she trained thousands of dancers and choreographers. In a dance career spanning more than seven decades, Sarabhai gave hundreds of performances and trained thousands of dancers and choreographers. Besides choreographing more than 300 dance-dramas, she has written several novels, plays, poetry and stories for children.

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• Complication means a circumstance that complicates something.
• Eternal means lasting or existing forever; without end.
• Decade means a period of ten years.
• Choreograph means to compose the sequence of steps and moves for a dance.