Eleven months after she joined the Kerala Kalamandalam Deemed to be University as its Chancellor, putting in some 25 hours of work every week to bring currency, sustainability and gender-sensitivity to the iconic traditional arts learning centre’s physical, academic and artistic structure, dancer Mallika Sarabhai has not received a contract explaining the terms of her appointment or her compensation package.
Ms. Sarabhai has not taken up the issue with the government, but the Vice-Chancellor of Kalamandalam and the registrar did, about eight months ago. “I have not seen the draft but often joke whether it will be ready during my tenure [which she learnt from the documents at the Kalamandalam is for a period of five years and extendable by one more tenure],” Ms. Sarabhai told The Hindu in an interview.
