India, March 18 -- Binodini Dasi, also known as Notee Binodini, was a Bengali theatre actor and thespian from 19th-century India who started acting at the age of 12.

I was very young, merely six or seven years old, when Notee Binodini took over me. When reading about her, I could see her dancing in front of me. How she adopted me is still a mystery to me.

At that time, I could not realize what was happening to me. Even I had no time to wonder about what was the feeling called, what was the experience called.

But I did not feel the same that I used to feel when reading other books. When I started reading her story, slowly, I was transcended to a different world where I could feel Binodini everywhere around me.

Who was this mystery woma...