It is not often you witness a legend dance on stage and furthermore, all the more difficult to perform and share stage with a legend. I have been teaching dance in India for almost 15 years now and it was always my dream to be on the same stage with this ‘legend’. It was a […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Born to legendary santoor player Padma Vibhushan Pt Shivkumar Sharma, Rahul Sharma was just 13 when he picked up the instrument his father had been associated with since his teenage days too. An Economics graduate, Rahul will be performing at the 72nd edition of Shriram Shankarlal Music Festival in the National Capital tomorrow, […]Read More
At the Kumbh Mela at Pragyaraj which recently ended as well as at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention in Varanasi, the “Dream Girl of Indian Cinema”, the super-stunning Padma Shri Hema Malini presented her larger-than-life dance ballet, Ganga. The gorgeous dancer presented her ballet in the presence of Union External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, chief […]Read More
For some dancers, work never stops. It doesn’t matter whether they are physically present at a rehearsal hall or not. These dancers clock in early to write that choreography, make arrangements for clothes, skip lunch to finish a creative planning conversation on the phone and again stay back till late, waiting for approvals and what […]Read More
A few days back, the commercial capital of India, Mumbai was the centre for the 52nd World Congress of Dance organised by the Dadar-Mumbai section of the International Dance Council in collaboration with Secretariat Athens & Council Headquarters, Paris affiliated with UNESCO. It was a historic gathering of dancers from all over the world who […]Read More
Today I want to take all of you back to the era of 1980s and 1990s, the time when lots of new beautiful faces were entering into Indian cinema as mainstream heroines. Each of them had very different and unique talent; they were not just drop dead gorgeous but were extremely talented actresses and dancers. […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Considered among the most talented rappers in the country and a pioneer in the rap scene in India, Delhi-NCR-based rapper KR$NA is now featuring in Zoya Akhtar directed Gully Boy which is all set for release tomorrow. We had a chat with the young rapper… How did you land up with the song in Gully Boy? I […]Read More
There are some people who we meet and they make a place in our hearts forever. Their personality has magnetism that pulls and bonds us with them for life. Today, let us meet one such person who I met over 15 years back during a film shoot and she remains one of my most favourite […]Read More
Team L&M The good old days of community living, totally absent today, makes her deeply nostalgic. An utter absence of colourful and unique indigenous architecture bothers her no end. And because she couldn’t do anything about creating old architecture, artist Kavita Chopra Dikshit did the next best thing she could — create artworks that depict […]Read More
Benoy K Behl Most people are not aware that at least a score of Hindu deities are very actively worshiped in Japan. In fact, there are hundreds of shrines to Saraswati alone. There are innumerable representations of Lakshmi, Indra, Brahma, Ganesha, Garuda and other deities. In fact, deities we have practically forgotten in India, such […]Read More