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India Today
6 days ago
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Who is Lavanya Das, the teenager from Bastar who became an overnight sensation
A 16 year old girl from left wing extremism Bastar with dreams in her eyes of making it big in the acting world got her biggest thumbs up when on June 12 Priyanka Chopra made a story of her dance video and shared it on her instagram handle. The share made the performer an overnight sensation with the number of followers on instagram zooming to 1.1 million in a manner of in Jagdalpur, Lavanya Das, the daughter of a government school teacher in Jagdalpur had made a self choreographed video of herself belly dancing to the Asha Bhonsle sung Piya Tu Ab to Aaja and posted it on her instagram account on June 4. A student of class XII at the Success Convent School in the town, Lavanya had never imagined that a week later her video could have reached Priyanka Chopra and impressed comes from a family of actors. Her mother Neelima Das Manikpuri and maternal grandfather Bhagirathi Das Mahanandi- who incidentally was also a school teacher have been working as threatre actors. Her grandfather in fact was considered an authority on Halbi dialect spoken by the Gond community in Bastar. Lavanya has already featured in a number of Odiya and Chhattisgarhi music videos and was a child artiste in Doordarshan programs. She has not received any formal training in dance or acting but her mother Neelima is a trained Kathak dancer and tutors her. ' I want to pursue an acting course after my Class XII exams, either in Delhi or Hyderabad wherever I get admission,' Lavanya told India father passed away in 2019 but the mother daughter duo continue with the family tradition of pursuing performing Subscribe to India Today Magazine
Time of India
09-05-2025
- Time of India
HC dismisses caste validity petition, imposes Rs10K fine for suppression of facts
Nagpur: The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court dismissed a plea challenging the denial of a Scheduled Tribe (ST) validity certificate by a member of the 'Halbi' community. It held that the petitioner suppressed material facts regarding his blood relative's caste status and imposed a cost of Rs10,000 for misleading both the scrutiny committee and the directed the petitioner, Murlidhar Khadge, to deposit the imposed cost with the High Court Legal Services Sub-Committee within four weeks. A division bench of Justices Nitin Sambre and Vrushali Joshi ruled that Khadge, an employee of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, failed to disclose that his close relative, Gajanan Khadge, previously obtained a caste validity certificate belonging to the Special Backward Class (SBC) 'Koshti' caste. This certificate was issued in 2014, and the familial connection was reflected in a family tree submitted in 2018, which was not petitioner cited a 1917 school record of his grandfather, Ukarda Kisanji, which identified Ukarda as 'Halbi', a recognised Scheduled Tribe. In an earlier writ petition in 2022, the court directed the scrutiny committee to verify this historical record through a Vigilance Cell and reconsider the petitioner's after being pointed out by additional govt pleader Sangeeta Jachak, the court found that Khadge withheld the critical fact of his relative's SBC status both during the earlier litigation and in proceedings before the scrutiny court observed that if Khadge's claim were accepted, it would result in members of the same family holding caste validity certificates for two different groups — 'Halbi' (ST) and 'Khosti' (SBC) —without adequate justification. It ruled that there was no credible explanation from the petitioner for the omission and referred to prior Supreme Court and HC judgments emphasizing that fraud vitiates all the scrutiny committee's Vigilance Cell unearthed historical records from 1917 and beyond that documented the caste of other paternal relatives, including the petitioner's father, cousin, and great-grandfather, as 'Koshti'. The court concluded that the burden of disproving these adverse entries lay on the petitioner, who failed to do so the petitioner's deliberate suppression of facts and the legal consequences of misleading quasi-judicial bodies, the court refused to interfere with the scrutiny committee's April 2, 2025 order rejecting the tribe claim.
