Dr LG Meera Rao is a Professor of Kannada at Maharani Cluster University, Palace Road, Bangalore. She is a writer, singer, and a Bharathanatyam teacher by passion. She has published eleven books in Kannada, in the genres of translation, poetry, the short story, criticism, children’s literature, etc. She is a two-time winner of the Karnataka Sahitya Academy book prize for her works. For the last 32 years, she has been running the ‘Chitranaatya Foundation’ in Hampinagara, Bengaluru. Chitranaatya is her own school of Bharathanatyam and Bhava Nruthya and has trained hundreds of students in dance.