Jayakar had a close relationship with three prime ministers:
Jayakar was born in 1915 at Etawah in the state
She married Manmohan Jayakar, a barrister, in 1937, who died in 1972.
on becoming prime minister in 1966, appointed Jayakar as her cultural adviser.
The Hon' ble Mr M. D. Jayakar who was a young barrister at the time later wrote.
Jayakar was born in 1915 at Etawah in the state
of United Provinces later known as Uttar Pradesh.
Mr Jayakar tells the story of a senior English barrister who mispronounced Indian names,
confusing the words bai and bhai.
Jayakar had a close relationship with three prime ministers:
Jawaharlal Nehru, his daughter Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi.
Early on, she became close friends with Indira Gandhi who,
on becoming prime minister in 1966, appointed Jayakar as her cultural adviser.
We learn that she started learning Manipuri dance at age four, along with her elder sister, from a teacher in Nagpur, then at age seven she started learning Bharatanatyam from various gurus belonging to the Pandanallur school,
including Kumar Jayakar in Bombay.