Few critics or historians have been so central to the performing arts as Sunil Kothari was to the world of Indian traditional dance. He died on Dec. 27 at 87 in the Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in Delhi. Three weeks earlier he had announced on social media that he was ill from Covid-19 but was recovering. Soon after he was released, he suffered cardiac arrest and was taken to the hospital. “He worked hard,” Maya Kulkarni Chadda, his longtime friend and a fellow Indian scholar, wrote in an email, “with no money, no real support and no encouragement.”

Source: International New York Times January 06, 2021 23:03 UTC