“I have experienced even bigger exclusions before. This is not a big deal for me. I am writing this here to show that not only have things not changed over time, but also we are going deeper and deeper into a hole.”
This is what Bharatanatyam dancer Mansiya VP angrily wrote on Facebook on March 27, hours after she had been informed that she would not be allowed to perform at the Koodalmanikyam temple festival in Kerala’s Irinjalakuda. Her performance was scheduled for April 21, but it was being cancelled because she was not a Hindu.
