RADHIKA JHA

1981- 88 Nilgiri Girls

Profession/position - author and Odissi exponent. Her book Smell, published by Viking in Nov 1999, is the story of a young girl of Indian origin from Kenya who moves to Paris after her death of her a father, her struggle to exist in an alien land and her sensitivity to 'smell' which colors her life…

"The friendships that were made in Sna, were your wealth. It taught us, especially girls, to be independent enough to take decisions. The flip side was teaching methods were boring."