India, Sept. 11 -- LUCKNOW Even after being questioned for their choice of choosing performing arts as a career, some students chose to lend a deaf ear to all criticism and kept going ahead with the goal. Their perseverance, patience and consistency helped them excel and also bag medals during the convocation ceremony of Bhatkhande Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya on Wednesday.

Anshika Kataria, a student of MPA kathak, who clinched eight medals, said while most members of her family are engineers, her father, a businessman, supported her in choosing the field that gives her happiness.

"Instead of thinking of becoming an engineer like others in the family, my father supported me in pursuing kathak. I did not have any musical background, but my ...