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Sushila Arts Academy is named in the memory and spirit of Sushila Koirala, wife of Nepal’s first democratically elected Prime Minister B.P. Koirala. Trained in Bharatnatyam and Kathak, Sushila has dreamt of a Performing Art Academy in Nepal and had also run two dance Academies.
Dance was in Sushila’s D.N.A. Every action of hers – from the simple act of getting out of bed, or picking a morsel of food with her fingers to motioning an attendant – seemed to have a dance gesture. Sushila Koirala was also trained in Manipuri dance. Sushila Koirala has always believed that Art, Dance and Music is a Universal language that unites everything and everyone around.
Niranjan Koirala shared with us some memories about Sushila Ama:
“My earliest memories of Sushila Ama are from my Patna days in the early 50’s when she was our guardian while we were in school there. Any Patna resident of those days would remember how Sushila Ama and Hari Uppal were going door to door – from the Chief Minister’s home to a small shopkeeper asking for donation to establish a Performing Art Institution there. Today the Bharat Kala Bhavan is a landmark building in Patna of which Hari Uppal became its first Director.
In May 1959 when its first elected government has been formed, B.P. decided to pull out his son Prakash Koirala and me from the prestigious St. Xavier’s school to study in a local government school in Biratnagar. Sushila Ama also decided to go with us there. Her husband had become the Prime Minister but she was never comfortable with the trappings of power around her and decided to open a Dance Institute in Biratnagar instead. A South Indian couple – who were exponents of Bharatnatyam dance were hired and our home in Biratnagar became possibly its first Classical Dance Centre in Nepal. While I developed my taste to South Indian coffee at a very early age, almost all young girls growing up in Biratnagar at that time got their first lessons in classical dance. Sometimes Sushila Ama would visit her husband in Kathmandu, on one occasion the Royal couple asked her why she was not in Kathmandu acting as the hostess to her Prime Minister husband? She said she had opened Dance institute in Biratnagar”.