Padma Shri winning Veteran Dance Historian Sunil Kothari, passes away at 87
- Padma Shri awardee dance historian and critic Sunil Kothari has passed away after suffering cardiac arrest. He was 87.
- Kothari was qualified as a Chartered Accountant, before turning to the study of Indian dance forms.
- He authored more than 20 books on the subject of Indian dance forms.
- The noted dance scholar Kothari received numerous titles and awards for his contribution to Indian dance forms. Some of them includes the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1995); the Padma Shri bestowed by the Government of India (2001); and the Life Time Achievement Award of the Dance Critics Association, New York, USA (2011).