The Dancer

'....She was far more difficult and demanding than that. She wanted to be your friend, lover, parent, sibling, ancestor, child. She was not just a choreographer or a dancer or a poet or an activist or a painter. She was a lover of trees and flowers, of the sun and the moon, the sea and the sky, the shy mongoose and the intrepid kingfisher.'

From, 'Living in her time (Remembering Chandralekha whose dance was more a lifelong quest to know the body)', Tishani Doshi in The Sunday Magazine, The Hindu, 7 Jan 2007