Meet the Founder
Niral Uprit
Kathak Visharad, Kathak Alankar
Disciple of Mrs. Damaynti Miradwal
Bhopal Literature and Art Festival 2026
I don't remember choosing kathak. I think it chose me.
I started as a child, too young to understand what riyaz meant, too small for my ghungroos to fit. But something about the sound of those bells against the floor made sense to me in a way nothing else did. It still does.
Kathak has been my companion. Not something that defined me, but something that walked alongside me through school, through growing up, through every version of myself I've been.
People sometimes assume that classical dance narrows your world. For me, it did the opposite. Kathak widened everything.
Learning abhinaya taught me how to hold a room with my eyes before I ever spoke a word into a microphone. Years of expressing stories through my face and hands gave me something I didn't expect: the confidence to stand on any stage, not just a dance stage, and say what I mean clearly.
When I stood at the podium at IIM Ranchi, I realised that the same training that taught me to convey a story through a single glance in kathak was what let me convey my ideas to a room full of strangers without flinching.
The expressions came first. The confidence followed.
IIM Ranchi, Young Changemakers Programme
Why TechNrityam
Every kathak student knows this feeling. You leave your guru's class full of energy, full of corrections, full of things to practice. Then you go home and it's just you. No tabla. No counting. No one to tell you if your sam is landing clean.
I felt that gap for years. The silence where the tabla should be. The question you ask yourself at night: “Am I doing this right?”
TechNrityam is what I wished existed when I was learning. A companion for the hours between classes. Not a replacement for the guru, never that, but a space where you can practice your padhant, feel the taal, and push yourself without waiting for anyone's permission.
I built it because I needed it. I think you might too.
Connect with Niral
Questions about TechNrityam, collaboration ideas, or just want to talk kathak?
Built with love, ghungroos, and a lot of chai.