Kerala Kalamandalam’s new chancellor, the Ahmedabad-based classical dancer-activist, will bring her years of experience of running Darpana Academy of Performing Arts to Thrissur’s nearly-century-old arts institution, and has already instituted gender-equal changes on the campus.
Sarabhai had unsuccessfully contested against BJP leader LK Advani in 2009 Lok Sabha polls from Gandhinagar. She was offered a ticket from the Congress in 1984.