Theos-Talk Archives (January 1997 Message tl00847)

At 08:50 PM 1/27/97 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 97-01-26 23:27:06 EST, you write:
>
><< To Rukmini's credit, there were two activities in which she did some good.
> The first was reviving the traditional Indian Dance which was one time
> practiced only by Temple Women. She was the first one to from the elite
> Indian Class to take up the dance. She has built a University for Dance and
> Music and Arts and is very famous in India today. Today Indian Dance is art
> of choice of everybody in India and even for most of the Indians in the USA.
> She was also very active in animal welfare movement in India and was
> responsible for many legislative changes as she was a member of the upper
> chamber of the Parliament.
>  >>
>
>At one point in her career, Rukmini was asked to be President of India. I
>forgot which Prime Minister made the request. She declined, deferring to her
>theosophical work and her activity in her school of classical dance. I don't
>feel that she would have been considered for the presidency of India if she
>was an "air head" as one critic on this list chose to characterize her. 
>
>LunarPitri
>
Thanks for bringing this up.

She was held in very high esteem all over India and is a household name even
today several years after she died.

mkr