Babulal Doshi also attended the conference. He took me to Kala Vikash Kendra in Cuttack and showed me young girls ranging from age of 10 to 15 learning Odissi dance.But Kelubabu continued to perform incurring the wrath of his father. The word Goti in Odiya language means one and pua means a boy. The young boys from the age of five would be trained in dance, dressed as girls with elaborate make-up and chitravali, dotted design on their face decorating patterns of little dots of leaves running through cheeks on both the sides. By fortuitous circumstances I met a Gujarati organiser Babulal Doshi, director of Kala Vikash Kendra institution from Cuttack where children were taught dance, not knowing exactly that it was a classical dance form. I met Kelu-babu’s mother who told me the story of how when barely ten years old Kelubabu and his friend, playing roles of gopis looking for Krishna had decided to go to Brinadban collecting some money.

They had gone to the railway station and had asked for ticket to go to Brindaban! The ticket master was surprised that these two boys had planned to go to Brindaban and assured them that he would take them there.I did not then know that Kelucharan Mahapatra would become the legendary guru and one of the architects of Odissi dance, the other two gurus being Pankaj Charan Das, adopted son of a Mahari, Devdasi and Guru Deba Prasad Das. Both were admonished for their search of the divine and were warned not to dance any more. For base they used white powder of lime and red colour for cheeks. He asked me to visit Puri for darshan of Lord Jagannath and go with him to Cuttack to know more about Odissi.Though the tradition of young boys dressed as girls was prevalent in Odisha, but few had bothered to document about the Gotipua dances.

Dhiraj Chavda was also Gujarati and had taken excellent colour photos of the Jhaveri Sisters who too were Gujarati.It was in 1966 or there about that Babulal Doshi sent me to Raghurajpur with Kelu-babu. When completely dressed as young female they looked so cute, the tiny tots while dancing and singing would steal hearts of the spectators.Having seen Guru Deba Prasad Das demonstrating technique of Odissi at All India Dance Seminar in April 1958, at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi, I was curious to know more about Odissi dance form. Babulal Doshi requested me to invite Dhiraj Chavda, a well-known photographer to visit Cuttack, to take photographs of dancers, of temples of Bhubaneswar and Konark.Next year in 1959 there was an Oriental Conference at Bhubaneswar where chief minister Hare Krushna Mehtab was the president. Dr V. It was there that I first time saw young Guru Kelucharan Mahapatra and his prime disciple twelve year old, attractive Kum Kum Mohanty (nee Das).Thanks to Babulal Doshi, who invited me to Cuttack to undertake research on Odissi dance that I came to know for the first time that Kelubabu was a Gotipua dancer, hailing from a village Raghurajpur, where he was born in a family of painters who made Patachitra using mythological themes. Raghavan, the Sanskrit scholar was also presiding over one of the sessions when Odissi dance was presented by one Dhirendranath Pattanaik, a dancer and a scholar. What he Material Handling Equipment Parts Factory did was to inform Kelubabu’s father about his son’s search for Krishna and take possession of him and other young boy