Team L&M Grammy-nominated classical Indian legend, composer and sitarist Shujaat Husain Khan and renowned Iranian-American vocalist Katayoun Goudarzi give a new urgency to the age-old love poems of Rumi on their latest album This Pale released today (October 1) globally. Iranian ney player Shaho Andalibi and 5th-generation tabla player of the Thirakwa lineage Shariq Mustafa […]Read More
Team L&M The Indian family system has a deeply embedded impression of living in a joint family where parents often stay with their grown-up children. When parents reach an age where they need support from their children, children consider it as their moral duty. But Indian society has been going through a major social and […]Read More
Team L&M HABITAT WORLD with Mohan Khokar Dance Collection@IGNCA, continues to offer quality virtual dance films under the creative baton of Prof Ashish Mohan Khokar. The PIONEERS of Indian Dance (part 1 – 1901s to 1940s) features Russian, American, British artistes like Anna Pavlova, Ted Shawn, Ragini Devi, Louise Lightfoot who came to India, got […]Read More
The oil on canvas works by artist Tapan Dash depict his life journey from the childhood days he spent at Jagannathpuri in Odisha Rajkumari Sharma Tankha The Dialectics of Garden Bloom, a solo show by Ghaziabad-based artist Tapan Dash is all about his life-journey – the situations he encountered, the challenges he met and successes […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Growing up in the French countryside, Maite Delteil called herself ‘nature’s child’. So, nature has been an intrinsic part of most of her art works. But the paintings displayed at her recently concluded show, Pages From My Diary, at Art Alive Gallery, Panchsheel Park, were still life and portraits, albeit in her […]Read More
Team L&M After a thumping start last week at HABITAT WORLD, the Khokar Dance Archives presents A century of Indian dance , covering a 100 plus years. Centuries begin by one and end in zero, hence the period platformed is 1901 – 2000. ‘This is when pioneers from West came to India at turn of […]Read More
Why do some clubbers shake it like a Polaroid picture while others prefer to perch on a bar stool? British psychologist Peter Lovatt, who has conducted rigorous field work in nightclubs, believes he can explain why some booty shaking is hot — and some is not. It’s all about your hormones. For reasons of data […]Read More
Team L&M The IHC (Habitat World Art & Culture) is doing the first-ever major focus on Indian dance pioneer, scholar, collector and father- figure of archiving, the late Prof Mohan Khokar starting on his 20th death anniversary – September 17. The first male student of Kalakshetra in 1945, he was also the founder-head of Baroda […]Read More
Transgender Dancer Pooja Sharma ‘Rekha’ turns into an internet sensation For years I have been writing about various artists, covering events, profiling dancers, talking of innovative choreographies, future of dancers, dance festivals, shows and more. But today I would like to introduce you all to a very special dancer, the one who has become an […]Read More
Mukta Munshi Lean In India Founder and Author Sanya Khurana launched her first music video as a tribute to Lord Krishna this Janamashtami Kanha Re. The video was released on Youtube. The audio version of the song was released on a number of digital platforms like Spotify, Ghana, iTunes, Hungama, Wynk, JioSaavn. Life & More […]Read More