Mallika Sarabhai on regret, loss, recovery and dance

Published on Sep 23, 2022 07:55 pm IST

In her new memoir, In Free Fall, actor, dancer and activist Mallika Sarabhai, 69, speaks of battling bulimia and anorexia; finding dance amid the trauma of loss. She discusses growing up as the daughter of renowned Indian classical dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai and Indian space-research pioneer Vikram Sarabhai; and of raising her two children. And she speaks of the years spent healing, from a rare skeletal disorder, from grief, divorce, depression. What does it take to pick up the pieces after each of life’s curveballs? Take a look.

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