My Story

My Story: 'Drag Helps Me Bridge The Gap Between My Gender Visuality And My Performance As An

Akanksha Saxena

I was just seven years old when the dancing bug bit me. I watched a film called 'Padayappa' where the actress broke into a dance when the hero rejected her. She used this medium as an outlet for her anger. Coming from an orthodox Telugu family, my father encouraged me to take up Indian classical...