A very healthy new year! Happy now means healthy; Post Covid has taught us that. A for…. a year ahead with hope. A for… a new way to think A for … Not my name or me but just be! The year started with A book, A film and A conversation @BIC. That’s Bangalore International […]Read More
This interview is very special to me, as I had a wonderful conversation with award winning Manipuri artist Prof Yaikhom Hemanta Kumar from Santiniketan. He is a teacher, a Pung player, a dancer, a choreographer, a writer of Manipuri dance style. He is currently working as a professor at the Sangit Bhavan Visva Bharti University, […]Read More
Recently dance lovers in Europe experienced a breathtaking production called Samsara by two dynamic artists Aakash Odedra from UK and Hu Shenyuan from China. Samsara, is inspired by the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, and traces the steps we take, both forward and backward, in search of our Higher Self. Drawing on thinking […]Read More
She is an artist who has won our hearts for decades now, be it through her dance, her lectures, her philanthropically work or her writing. Padma Shri Shovana Narayan is one dancing legend whose work is totally unmatched. Her new offering to the world of dance is her latest book Kathak Lok’ We all have […]Read More
The year-end always becomes a time for stocktaking. This year let us examine where arts and culture is headed as a nation. Are we a nation? Or an assembly of different states, all knit together with one thread of being Indian. What is even Indian in India of today? Food, fashion or faltu things. Faltu […]Read More
Shirdi Maharaj of Dwarka Mai (that’s the first SM of DM) or Sai Baba as he is universally called. In 50 years, his popularity has increased manifold, making Shirdi the second most important and frequented pilgrimage place of India, the first being Tirumala-Tirupati. A small hamlet, in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, Shirdi was hardly known […]Read More
If you are a fan of seeing dance on social media, you surely have seen New York based Internet dance sensation Jainil Mehta, 23, who took the world by storm with his ‘Men in Skirts’ movement. This movement #Meninskirts inspired millions emotionally as well as physically. Jainil who has roots in Mumbai, spoke with me […]Read More
Tijara is just under 100km from Delhi on way to Alwar but it is like 2,000 years away in time. Well, a crime novel, Tijara’s Mystery Codes, written by one of the most unusual storytellers, Hemma Myers Sood, has traced it imaginatively to 5,000 years ago, when the Pandavas no less, stayed here in Matsya […]Read More
People, often ask me why do you dance? My answer is simple “Why not?” but today let me try and dwell more into it and make an attempt to explain the reasons, why do people dance? Honestly the happiness that we find in dance cannot be explained in words – it actually has to be […]Read More
There are many dance festivals that are famous all over the world but then there are a few legendary one that one looks forward to being a part or just witness what they bring year after year. Among the later, is the prestigious and world famous dance festival is Battery Dance Festival, which celebrated its […]Read More