In a December 2022 Facebook post, former director of the Kalakshetra Foundation Leela Samson described Athena Sadiq — then a dance intern — as the ‘mistress’ of a male faculty member.
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A year after sexual harassment allegations from students against four staffers rocked the Kalakshetra Foundation in Chennai, the campus is still ‘polarised and politicised’.
Court said it was a blight on Chennai’s premier cultural academy that it sat on students’ complaints for long, and called for an overhaul of guru-shishya parampara practised in the college.
Faculty member says move to defer admissions for postgraduate diploma courses amounts to 'unfair treatment' of students who led protests against sexual harassment on campus.
Independent panel also recommends reforms in Kalakshetra's administration. Padman, assistant professor at Kalakshetra Foundation’s Rukmini Devi College of Fine Arts, is out on bail.
In a letter to Tamil Nadu women’s commission, the Bharatnatyam dancer has alleged that PT Narendran, now a Kalakshetra board member, & teacher Mohanan sexually exploited her decades ago.
From Punjab’s unemployable youth and Kalakshetra students’ fight against sexual harassment to Gujarat’s child nuns from Jain community, Ground Reports give you a 360-degree perspective.
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