Later Years
She continued to perform in most of the state functions. With her pioneering efforts, she brought forth an almost forgotten Odissi style of dancing to an important position in the dance repertory of India.
For four decades, she remained an undisputed leading dancer of Odissi. She died of cancer at the age of 58, on 24th of June, 1997. Even up to her last years, and while battling death, she exuded grace far beyond her years, and physical being would have allowed.
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“I shall die as my fathers died, and sleep as they sleep; even so.
For the glass of the years is brittle wherein we gaze for a span;
A little soul for a little bears up this corpse which is man.
So long I endure, no longer; and laugh not again, neither weep.
For there is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.”
—A.C. (Algernon Charles)
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—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)