A Bharatanatyam exponent like no other, Narthaki Nataraj doesn’t want to call the Padma Shri she just won a transgender milestone.
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00:00Padma Shri, the government has a very prestigious civilian award, the government of India announced for me, that is not for my transgender identity.
00:16I'm the transgender artist, but I don't want to show, I don't want to expect anything from you.
01:00I born with like a silver spoon family, but that's not work out for my regular life, all wounds and pains only they weigh in front of me, I'm just cross with my hard work.
01:23I feel like just my life is I'm a wandering artist, I don't have any goal in front of me, it's a clueless life was my journey, but I have courage, self confidence, hard work, I have it, these are I feel my treasures, still I preserve these treasures, this is my life going on.
01:51I have a lot of wounds and curse and burns, but I don't want to express myself with these pains, I'm just want to what I prove in the society, that is Nartaki.
02:05Padma Shri, the government has a very prestigious civilian award, the government of India announced for me, that is not for my transgender identity.
02:14They just choose for me as a Bharatanatyam artist for my merit only, because I'm just crossed in more than 30 years to the service to this Bharatanatyam artist, I'm just preserve and propagate the rare compositions of the Bharatanatyam and long ways and lineages, I'm just still preserve, that's why government choose.
02:37But what is the double benefit is, I'm a transgender, I'm the transgender artist, but I don't want to show, I don't want to expect anything from you, I'm a transgender, please give anything, because I hate that, because the transgender identity is for my soul, that's not for life.