Jhelum Paranjape (born September 24, 1954) is an Indian classical dancer.
[1] She founded Smitalay, a dance academy located in Mumbai, India.
in Statistics, then she became a Mathematics Professor while pursuing her Odissi dance work.
[4] Later, she founded the Smitalay dance institute in Mumbai, where she choreographed Odissi productions and trained Aditi Bhagwat.
[6][7] Smita Patil introduced her to Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra, who died in 1986, in her memory she started Smitalay in 1989.