Classical dance the soul of Indian Culture; perishing and adulterated!

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Dance is an inherent part of every Society but when we talk about indian culture we know that it is diverse. India has a diversified culture and every culture has some significant uniqueness in it which makes India all together an "incredible India". When we discuss about culture especially Indian culture it is depicted by some sort of dance form because every culture has its own specific traditional unique dance form. Indian culture is famous for its classical dance forms which are; Kichipudi, Kathak,Odissi,Kathakali,Sattriya,Manipuri,Mohiniyattamaand last but not the least Bharatnatyam. Every dance form has its own culture, tradition,discipline, richness and history they all are born and belong to India but they are one of their kind very individual and different yet all are equally mesmerizing.
Indian classical dance form are the true culture of India because evey dance form mentioned above belongs to different parts of India.

1)Kathak: Nothern and western India
2)Kathakali: Kerala
3)kuchipudi:Andhra pradesh
4) Odissi: Odissa
5) Sattriya: Assam
6)Manipuri: Manipur
7) Mohiniyattam:Kerala
8) Bharatnatyam:Tamil Nadu.

But this topic is particularly about culture of Bharatnatyam which like other classical dance forms is perishing day by day as we know that classical dance forms have own discipline and so has Bharatnatyam but because of western cultural this rich and traditional art form is fading.
Bharatnatyam this art form is about 2000 years old then it was called as "Uprupak" it wàs born in a Tamil nadu in Tanjore district and slowly it started growing its roots not only in all over India. This art form started appealing whole world especially England and Europe from 19th Century but in this modern era it is losing its  identity some new art form is added with it which we generally call a fussion as far as classical dances concerned they are ought perform with a classical song but today's pop songs are merged with it which is not a justice with this dance form but there is one person who is really worried looking over this scenario "Mrs Meera Pauaskar" basically from Dharwad in Karnataka. She is Nritya Visharad, M.A. in Sociology, M.A. in Music, M.A. in Dance and Sangeet Prabhakar and she is recognised artist of A.I.R. Dharwar, in light music and drama since 1965  Currently she runs Bharatnatyam dance academy called "Shri Mata Nirmala Devi Nritya Zankar Sangeet Academy". She strive hard to preserve this rich and unique traditional dance form and to prevent it from getting adulterated while talking to Meera ma'am about the adulteration of Bharatnatyam with western form and culture she said " well it is a topic of huge concern for her and topic to really ponder upon for all of us because all classical dance forms and Bharatnatyam specifically is pristine dance forms which represents the  rich culture of our nation but it is very sad to see that youth of our country is also not knowing about it as they are open handedly welcoming hip hop, break dance and etc but have no realization about beauty of indian classical dance form it is said that Sanskrit is the Mother of all languages similarly classical dance is also mother of all the existing dance forms we must respect it and try hard to take it further but I cannot see this on the visa v I see that many Indians are learning western dance and are pro in that, not a problem to me if they are learning and perform so skilfully actually it feels great when they adapt some other culture of dance form and are skilled in it as well. We( students of Nritya zankar) often perform on international level and going there and to see that a foreign person is performing Bharatnatyam in same competition and win some times it gives me great pleasure that world respects and follow our tradition  but on other hand it compells me to be worried about our youth because they somewhere in fad of western culture are ignoring ours and this is why Bharatnatyam is fading as a culture". Mrs pauskar while expressing her grief regarding perishing  Bharatnatyam culture she also mentioned that "If we as a citizens will not respect the our tradition then we cannot blame any other country to flagging their culture on us so only way out from this situation is to empower our own culture, to spread the knowledge, significance, beauty and richness of our own culture then only it will get some recognition  and prevent it from getting adulterated.