 While most artists continue to explore their art form within the traditional parameters laid down thousands of years ago in Natya Shastra, there are some who want to move ahead and contemporize. Dr. Malika Sarabhai, the celebrated exponent of Bharat Natyam and Kuchipudi Dance Forms, is one of those rare performers who, after having mastered the traditional, has decided to use her talent and expertise to go beyond performing for performance's sake. My attitude towards creativity is, in some senses, a very Indian attitude, which is that creation comes out of Ananda and bliss, not out of angst and depression, which is the Stanislavski technique. It'll be like this and that. I think she'll use dance where it's necessary. She'll use drama. I don't think she has quite the one-track mind on dance that I have. She has also her father's idea of development, and so I think, as I say, I think it's enriched. It may not be a dance form, but I think everything she uses to help her. She uses drama a great deal, sometimes even more than dance. So I think she will just use the arts because that is her background. Malika the dance use. Malika the publisher. Malika the actress. Malika the anchor. Malika the theater person. Malika the social activist. Does all this paint a confusing picture? Who is Malika? No, no, no. Don't try and bracket me. I think, if anything, Malika is a communicator of ideas, a communicator with passion, and a communicator who uses every language in her book and learns more than dance in her.