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Family members and disciples of iconic people dancer of Bihar, Vishwa Bandhu, connected Monday (January 26, 2026) expressed happiness implicit his enactment for the Padma Shri grant posthumously.
Bandhu is 1 of the 3 persons from Bihar whose names person been announced by the Central authorities for the Padma Awards.
“We are highly blessed that the Padma Shree Award volition beryllium bestowed upon him posthumously. Had this happened successful his lifetime, it would person been fantastic,” Arpana Kumari, the youngest girl of Vishwa Bandhu, told PTI.
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“He had dedicated his full beingness to art... helium had hoped for this recognition,” she said.
Kumari said helium ventured into people creation astatine “a precise young age” erstwhile it was hard for boys to instrumentality up creation arsenic a career.
Vishwa Bandhu’s disciple, Jitendra Kumar Chaurasia, said, “My imagination has travel existent with this recognition. It was my heartfelt tendency that helium should person it. This feels similar our ain achievement, an accomplishment for the creation satellite of Bihar.” Chaurasia asserted that Vishwa Bandhu provided a modern interaction to the accepted people dances of Bihar.
“By adding creativity and innovation to Bihar’s accepted creation forms, helium gave those a caller magnitude that became precise fashionable among the masses,” Chaurasia said.
Bandhu, a pioneering fig successful Bihar’s people creation tradition, mesmerised audiences with implicit 6,000 performances and played a cardinal relation successful empowering agrarian communities by offering escaped training.
Agriculture idiosyncratic Gopalji Trivedi and Bhojpuri people vocalist Bharat Singh Bharti were the 2 different persons from the authorities who were named for the country's fourth-highest civilian honours.
