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"I want to bring out in drawings what my ancestors did in sculpture in the temples of Southeast Asia."
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Leela Row Dayal
Leela Row Dayal was a female tennis player and author from India. She was the first female Indian tennis player to win a match at the Wimbledon Championships. She wrote several books on Indian classical dance in both English and Sanskrit.
"I want to bring out in drawings what my ancestors did in sculpture in the temples of Southeast Asia."
"She lived the kind of elite Indian life that could have only taken place in the years between the two World Wars, when the highest echelons of Indian society could simultaneously keep one foot firmly planted in the country of their birth, but another just as firmly, in the broader international networks of the British empire."