Eminent Bharatanatyam exponent and guru Prof. Sudharani Raghupathy was honoured with Natya Kala Acharya award by the Music Academy at the inaugural function of its Dance Festival on 3 January 2013 in Chennai. A cover story was published earlier in Sruti 169 (October 1998) - now available as Sruti E-Vintage Issue 3 at Sruti Archives - Online. Fifteen years later, the artist who is now 68 years old, looks back with a sense of fulfilment at the years spent in learning, performing, researching and teaching dance.