Mallika Sarabhai is one of India’s more versatile women. She has been a dancer and choreographer, actor in films and theatre, columnist and activist.
During COVID-19 she found out that she also enjoyed the process of writing a book. Free Fall: My Experiment with Life was written when her Darpana Academy of Performing Arts in Ahmedabad had to be shut for the first time. “Publishers had been asking me to write an autobiography for a long time, and I thought COVID was the right time,” Ms. Sarabhai told The Hindu during the Kerala Literature Festival, where she is a speaker. “And I loved writing the book. I have written columns for some 25 years. Now I am toying with the idea of writing fiction.”
Ms. Sarabhai at the moment is focused on taking Kerala Kalamandalam forward. She was appointed as its Chancellor a year ago by the Kerala government. Recently, there has been a controversy about her remuneration, but she said she was not bothered by it.
