Danseuse Alokananda Roy

Born in 1951 she has come a long way from the principal performer in Children's Little Theater or CLT to Classical dancer to Dance Educationist, Choreographer and a social worker. Her glamorous poise and innate sense of style have own her a large core of admirers among whom are the media who feature her regularly and Indian foremost fashion designer.

Somewhere down the years she has become the cultural icon in Bengal and everywhere across the globe where the Bengal has made a niche. This journey she has transverse in the course of her 50 years on the professional stage where she made a debut at the tender age of four.

For Alokananda: Rapturous River of Rhythm

By Ritu Bhimani

For fifty years, you've fashioned form, with feet of intense grace

A person who has given dance a splendid, beauteous, face

You've sculpted, chiselled, planned configured amazing form and feel

You perform with an inner fire with total zest and zeal

Your charm, your brains, your passion deep, have kept your dreams aloft

Your gestures for the lesser ones have shown your centre soft

You've gone beyond your own longings, to find a niche for those

Who would not otherwise have seen the light of rhythmic prose

A person with such intense bonds, a friend so frank, sincere,

From kids to grown ups all have time to stop, to watch to cheer

You've given countless hours of joy and held us all in thrall

We hope these golden years will glow and may you e'er walk tall