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Ashish Mohan Khokar's voice carries a stamp of authority, as aseasoned ommentator on Indian dance. He hails from the first family of dance in India. His fathr, the late Mohan Khokar, is universally accepted as a pioneering scholar of Indian dance and created India's largest archive on dance. His mother, M.K. Saroja, is a veteran Bharatanatyam dancer and guru. Ashich himself learnt three classical ance forms and has worked as an arts administrator internationally co-ordinating the Festivals of India in France, Sweden, Germany and China. He was Director of INTACH and Martand Singh Consultants. He has authored several books on Indian arts and culture and is a dance critic and columnist of the world's largest circulated daily The Times of India. He publishes and edits India's first and only year-book on dance, Attendance. He is married to Elisabeth and they live in Chennai and Banglore.