Vyjayantimala Bali
It all began on a European tour with her parents, when she performed before the Pope in 1939, and earned his benediction. She was barely seven. Defying age, time and space, she's still dancing in the new millennium. For Vyjayantimala, 'everything begins and ends with dance'. That's the raison d'etre of her very existence. Over these decades, her August audience comprised kings and queens, presidents and prime ministers, the high and mighty. Truly a roving ...