January 17, 2022 3:00 PM
Kathak dancer Pandit Birju Maharaj passes away at age 83
<span style="color: #222222;">The country's famous Kathak dancer Pandit Birju Maharaj is no more. The 83-year-old Panditji died of heart attack.<br />''<br />''Birju Maharaj was born Brij Mohan Nath Mishra on February 4, 1937 in a well-known Kathak dancing family.<br />''<br />''He began performing as a child alongside his father and became a Guru in his teens. By the time he was 28, Birju Maharaj's mastery of the dance form had won him the covet...