Mansiya V PTwo weeks after being barred from performing at the Koodalmanikyam temple at Irinjalakuda town in Thrissur district for being a non-Hindu, Bharatanatyam exponent Mansiya V P would perform in the temple town on Monday at a venue organised by DYFI, the youth wing of CPI(M).
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“I am performing as an artiste, not as a token protest against the denial of venue for me at the temple. But DYFI wants to give a message to society at large that art has no religion…,’’ Mansiya said.
Mansiya, a PhD research scholar in Bharatanatyam, had earlier faced the ire and boycott of Islamic clerics for being a performing artiste of classical dance forms despite being born and brought up as a Muslim. She, later, abandoned Islam.
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