Honey kalaria biography
Instructor Bio Honey Kalaria..
Driven on by my love of the dance
Honey Kalaria
I HAVE only a vague memory of being taken to our local hospital in Malawi to have my right foot broken. I was two years old.
My mother had noticed, with increasing anxiety, that my foot wasn't growing properly.
The ankle and bones, instead of growing straight, were bending inward.
Honey Kalaria is the founder of Honeys Dance Academy launched in as the first British-Asian dance academy, specializing in teaching Bollywood dance.
My foot was clubbed - a condition that, left untreated, could have left me permanently crippled.
During my operation, the doctor, a bone specialist from South Africa, broke my foot in several places and put it in a brace so the bones could regrow and realign.
My family was aware that I might end up with a twisted foot and one leg longer than the other.
My poor mother, who used to massage my foot in tears, praying that it would grow correctly, nursed me back to health and my foot healed properly.
There was another little girl in the hospital with a club foot who wasn't so lucky. Despite surgery, she ended up with a permanent limp.
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