Word: sushila
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Clad in a gold-colored silk sari, Dr. Sushila Nayar, disciple and personal physician to the late Mohandas K. Gandhi, carried the Mahatma's gospel all the way to Dallas: "If every Texan would adopt a policy of nonviolence, there would be no new problems...
...blows a bleating blast on a sankha, an instrument shaped like a big ocarina. Last week, in Manhattan's tiny Carnegie Chamber Music Hall, there was both gong-beating and sankha-blowing. The occasion was an evening of Hindu dances, put on by two Hindus, Bhupesh Guha and Sushila, who live, teach and foster their dance troupe in the backwaters of Manhattan...
...flute spun its single thread of melody. In the traditional Indian dance-forms, the dancers moved hands, arms, shoulders, necks, more purposively than their feet. Lithe, hollow-cheeked Bhupesh Guha became the god of spring, his fluttering hand a bee alighting on a flower to drink honey. Willowy Sushila was the lotus-born Lakshmi, placing buds at the feet of Vishnu, her arms and hands moving with the deliberate grace of a cobra. Bhupesh Guha became a hunter with tasseled spear, stalking the tiger, wary, fleet, then charging in for the kill. His frenzied ritual dance around the slain animal...
Many Westerners have made the long journey to India to study the mysteries of natya (ancient laws and rules of Hindu drama and dance). Dancers Guha and Sushila did the opposite. Hindus themselves, they were both in the U.S. when they decided to devote themselves to the infinite hours of study that natya demands. Guha's father, a district mayor and judge in India, had sent him to Germany to study engineering. He had finished his studies in the U.S., was installing refrigeration equipment in Waynesboro, Pa. Sushila (she uses no last name) was sent by her mining-engineer...
Bhupesh Guha & Sushila did not put on such a show as to erase memories of the great Uday Shan-Kar (now running his culture center in India), but their dance program provided a rare opportunity to see real Hindus doing real Hindu dances...