Shiamak Davar

Dancer, Choreographer

Born: 19th October 1961

Shiamak and his team performed at the closing ceremony of the National Games in Balewadi, Pune in Jan 1994. Though I was one of the participants of the games (yes - I was a member of Karnataka's women's basketball team), they were seated and located very far from where we were, so I could not get anywhere near them.

While we were seated on the field after the march past, I was talking to the pretty girl who was carrying the Karnataka name placard. She was telling me about the athletes and others she saw and met and in conversation, she showed me her artist's token that had the signatures of Shiamak Davar and athlete Shiny Wilson. I told her that I had got Shiny's while staying in the games village and she was lucky to have got Shiamak's too. She very sweetly said that she didn't really need it and as I collected autographs, gave me the paper!

Artist's token for the closing ceremony of the National Games 1994

Shiamak (in red), Shiny Wilson (in blue)

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