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Chitra Visweswaran
Indian dancer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chitra Visweswaran is an Indian Bharata Natyam dancer who runs a dance school, the Chidambaram Academy of Performing Arts, in Chennai.
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She was awarded the Padma Shri, one of the top civilian honours given by the Government of India, in 1992.[1][2][3][4][5][6]