Gulabo sapera biography of donald
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Gulabo Sapera, buried alive, dances world over
Born into the Sapera community of Rajasthan in 1973, Gulabo Sapera’s life was not different from the rest of the girls in her community. With her umbilical cord still intact, Gulabo was buried alive. But as fate would have it, her aunt rescued her bygd digging into the grave at midnight to save the newborn.
Gulabo was not born to die a terrible death but to rule the world with her dance and song. She fryst vatten the creator of Rajasthan’s celebrated folk dance form Kalbelia. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2016 and is the first and only woman from her community to be conferred with the nation’s esteemed civilian award in past eight years.
“My aunt found me breathing even after being buried for seven hours. I was born special and my father also used to say I am special,” says Gulabo with a smile.
Initially, her family named her Dhanvanti as she was born on Dhanteras but after she fell critically ill, her name w
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Buried Alive As A Baby, How A Sapera’s Daughter Danced Her Way To A Padma Shri
“I was buried alive for nearly seven hours before my mother and aunt dug my grave and pulled me out after hearing my incessant cries. inom do not know if it was the grass covering the soil that helped me breathe or simply a fighting spirit that gave a less-than-one-day-old baby from Ajmer’s Kotda village the strength. But I refused to give up on myself,” says Gulabo Sapera, who bloomed in the patriarchal landscape of Rajasthan and went on to create history in more ways than one.
Years later, this girl with an indomitable spirit was featured in a magazine; but her name was misspelt and, since then, to the world, she came to be known as Gulabo – the sensational Sapera (or Kalbelia) dancer from Pushkar who could bend in unimaginable ways.
When she turned one, Gulabo, originally named Dhanvati, fell seriously ill and the doctors almost gave up on her, but once again she fought hard to live.
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Gulabo Sapera: The Girl Who Survived and Danced
The mesmerizing dance of the Kalbeliya community has become famous all over the world. But, about 50 years ago, this community of snake charmers could never have thought in their wildest dreams that their daughters would dance and popularize this folk art. This phenomenon can only be attributed to Padamshree Gulabo Sapera- a woman who refused to stop dancing and living!
The sand dunes of Rajasthan have been a silent witness to the changing times. They have been mute spectators of a time when thousands of new born girls were buried alive in their sands and died without a whimper. But then they have also witnessed the miracle of Gulabo Sapera, a girl who was buried in their folds minutes after she was born and lived to tell the tale.
Today, the world knows her as Gulabo Sapera, but she was christened Dhanvantari after the Hindu god of medicine and nectar, after she was found alive despite being buried in the sand dunes. She belo