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Seema Kaushik Mehta
in March 2019
Born	c.1976
Nationality	Indian
Education	Academy of Art College in San Francisco
Occupation(s)	dancer and jewellery designer
Known for	Nari Shakti Puraskar award

Seema Kaushik Mehta (born c.1976) is an Indian Kathak expert and designer of jewellery. She received the Nari Shakti Puraskar award for her dancing advocacy in 2019 after working with under-privileged children in Mumbai.

Life

She was born in about 1976^[1] and she studied at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco.^[2]

She became a Chitresh Das disciple in 2010 and followed his ideas until his death in 2015. She trained with him and would perform his style of dancing in India.^[3] She and Pandit Das founded the second branch of his school in India, Chhandam Nritya Bharati, in Mumbai in 2010. Mehta's mentor had taught Kathak dance to the children of sex workers in Calcutta to help them break free of the cycle of exploitation.^[4]

Mehta was given the Nari Shakti Puraskar award on International Women's Day in 2019.^[5] 1000 women were nominated for the award and 44 were chosen to receive it. She was chosen because of her work with under-privileged children in Mumbai. They were learning to dance, but also to assert themselves. Maneka Gandhi was at the ceremony and spoke about the ambition of women in India.^[1]

Mehta appeared with American tap dancer Jason Samuels Smith. Samuels Smith had previously toured with her mentor. Kathak and tap dancing complement each other as both use the feet with the major difference being footwear as Kathak is done bare foot.^[6]

Jewelry

Mehta runs a school Chhandam Nritya Bharati and is still involved in jewelry design. She says that jewellery design and dance are both part of her life. She is the creative director in her family's jewellery business.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Pawar, Yogesh (2019-03-24). "Seema Mehta on receiving the President's award for teaching kathak to underprivileged girls". DNA India. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
^ ^a ^b Purushothaman, Kirubhakar (2017-03-02). "Sparkles are her business". The Asian Age. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
^ Mumbai Mirror (2011-06-11). "Kathak dancer Seema Mehta performs". The Times of India. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
^ "Umrao Jaan, the story untold". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
^ "Nari Shakti Puraskar - Gallery". narishaktipuraskar.wcd.gov.in. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
^ "Watch how tap dance and kathak blend on NCPA stage". Hindustan Times. 2017-01-20. Retrieved 2020-06-08.

v t e Nari Shakti Puraskar recipients
1999	K. V. Rabiya Chinna Pillai Kinkri Devi
2013	Manasi Pradhan M. Venkaiah Bina Sheth Lashkari T. Radha K. Prashanti Vartika Nanda Seema Sakhare
2014	Rashmi Anand Nanditha Krishna Laxmi Gautam Neha Kirpal Latika Thukral Sai Balijepally P. Kausalya Swaraj Vidwan
2015	Lucy Kurien Saurabh Suman Basanti Devi Suparna Baksi Ganguly Meena Sharma Priti Patkar Uttara Padwar Polumati Vijaya Nirmala Vasu Primlani Sujata Sahu Jyoti Mhapsekar Sumita Ghosh Anjali Sharma Krishna Yadav Shakuntala Majumdar
2016	State of Rajasthan Chhanv Foundation Mizo Hmeichhe Insuihkhawm Pawl (MHIP) Sadhana Mahila Sangha Shikshit Rojgar Kendra Prabandhak Samiti Tripunithura Kathakali Kendram Ladies Troupe Amruta Patil Amala Akkineni Anatta Sonney Anoyara Khatun B. Codanayaguy Bano Haralu Deepa Mathur Divya Rawat Ilse Köhler Rollefson Janki Vasant Kalpana Shankar Kalyani Pramod Balakrishnan Mumtaz M. Kazi Nandita Shah Pallavi Fauzdar Pamela Malhotra Qamar Dagar Reema Sathe Ringyuichon Vashum Sangita Iyer Smita Tandi Sumitra Hazarika Sunita Singh Choken Subha Varier Tiasa Adhya V. Nanammal Zuboni Hümtsoe
2017	Gargi Gupta Sindhutai Sapkal Gauri Maulekhi Navika Sagar Parikrama Malvika Iyer R Umadevi Nagaraj Thinlas Chorol S. Siva Sathya Bharti Kashyap Beti Zindabad Bakery Mittal Patel Sabarmatee Tiki Jayamma Bandari K. Syamalakumari Vanastree Lizymol Philipose Pamadykandathil Chirom Indira Urmila Balawant Apte Deepika Kundaji Purnima Devi Barman Anita Bharadwaj Ambica Beri Pushpa Girimaji Avani (organization) Shrujan C. K. Durga Rekha Mishra Mehvish Mushtaq Karuna Society for Animals and Nature One Stop Centre, Raipur Millet Network of India State of Punjab Madhu Jain Jetsun Pema M.S. Sunil Sheela Balaji Anuradha Krishnamoorthy and Namrata Sundaresan Gita Mittal
2018	A. Seema Anshu Khanna Anu Malhotra Anuradha N. Naik Chetna Gala Sinha Darshana Gupta Devaki Amma Didi Contractor Gowri Kamakashi Hekani Jakhalu Ipsita Biswas Iti Tyagi Kagganapalli Radha Devi Kalpana Saroj Lalita Vakil Madhuri Barthwal Manju Manikuttan Meenakshi Pahuja Mini Vasudevan Munuswamy Shanthi Neelum Sharma Nomita Kamdar Pamela Chatterjee Pragya Prasun Priyamvada Singh Pushpa N. M. Rahibai Soma Popere Rajani Rajak Reshma Nilofer Naha Rhea Mazumdar Singhal Ruma Devi Seema Mehta Seema Rao Sister Shivani Smriti Morarka Snehlata Nath Sonia Jabbar Sujatha Mohan Sunita Devi Twinkle Kalia Urmi Basu One Stop Centre, Lucknow Millet Network of India Qasab-Kutch Craftswomen Producer Co. Ltd. Social Welfare & Nutritional Meal Programme Dept, Tamil Nadu
2019	Arifa Jan Avani Chaturvedi Bhageerathi Amma Bhawana Kanth Bina Devi Chami Murmu Kalavati Devi Karthyayani Amma Kaushiki Chakroborty Mohana Singh Nilza Wangmo Padala Bhudevi Rashmi Urdhwareshe Sardarni Mann Kaur Tashi and Nungshi Malik
2020	Anita Gupta Ushaben Dineshbhai Vasava Nasira Akhter Sandhya Dhar Nivruti Rai Tiffany Brar Padma Yangchan Jodhaiya Bai Baiga Saylee Nandkishor Agavane Vanita Jagdeo Borade Meera Thakur Jaya Muthu, Tejamma (joint) Ela Lodh Arti Rana
2021	Sathupati Prasanna Sree Tage Rita Takhe Madhulika Ramteke Niranjanaben Mukulbhai Kalarthi Pooja Sharma Anshul Malhotra Shobha Gasti Radhika Menon Kamal Kumbhar Sruti Mohapatra Batool Begam Thara Rangaswamy Neerja Madhav Neena Gupta

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